Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Reiners, John 1822 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN REINERS.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work,
is the son of Harom and Sesche (Meyer) Reiners, and was born in Drege, Province
Hanover, Germany, February 28, 1822. At the age of fifteen years, having first
attended the common schools of his birthplace, he entered a mercantile
establishment in the city of Bremen, and there remained seven years.
Subsequently, he returned to his native town, and for fourteen years was in
business on his own account there. Mr. Reiners now embarked in the lumber trade,
which he continued until 1862, in which year he came to California, and for four
years was a resident of San Francisco. In 1860 he returned to Germany, but four
years later, in 1870, came back to the Pacific Coast, and resided in San
Francisco until the Spring of 1873, when he returned to Germany and remained
there until October of the same year. In November, 1873, he settled on his
present ranch in Contra Costa county, where he now farms three hundred and
ninety-five acres of land. Our subject is a man well-known in the section of the
country in which he resides, while his honest integrity of character places him
in the front rank of the citizens of Contra Costa. He married, in 1873, Miss
Elsa Esdohn, a native of Sudweihe, Province Hanover, Germany.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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