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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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ADOLPH W. REINEMAN, of the firm of A. W. & H. A. Reineman, jewelers, McKeesport, was born in Allegheny City March 4, 1858, a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Rickenbaugh) Reineman, natives of Ziegenheim, Germany, and Allegheny county, respectively. His paternal grandfather, Conrad Reineman, a watchmaker by trade, settled in Chambersburg, in 1834, and his maternal grandfather, John Riekenbaugh, a native of Switzerland, was among the pioneers of Allegheny county. Adam Reineman, who was a watchmaker by trade, settled in Chambersburg, Pa., in 1834, removed to Pittsburgh in 1841, and embarked in the jewelry business, in which he continued until 1852, and then retired. His children who grew to maturity were August R., Emma (Mrs. Dr. Herman Hechelman), Henrietta (Mrs. Adolph Foerster), Edward, Adolph W., Henry A. and Louis E. Adolph W. was reared and educated in Allegheny. He located in McKeesport May 31, 1885, and with his brother, Henry A., embarked in the jewelry business. They have succeeded in building up a fine trade that is daily increasing, and their establishment is the principal one of the kind in McKeesport. Adolph W. married, Feb. 11, 1885, Callie, daughter of August and Henrietta (Goehring) Hartze, of Allegheny, by whom he had one son, Lawrence G. Mr. Reineman is an enterprising and prominent business man. Politically he is independent.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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