Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Reb, Henry 1874 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

HENRY REB.

     Among the old settlers of Marshall county the name of Henry Reb, one of the
real pioneers of this county, who died in Vermillion township on March 24, 1874,
is held in pleasant remembrance. He was one of the very earliest settlers in
this county and did well his part in the work of developing that part of the
county in which he settled. Henry Reb was born in Rheinish Bavaria, Germany, in
1830, and was trained as a blacksmith and wheelwright in his native Fatherland.
There he lived until after he had attained his majority, when, in 1852, he came
to this country and lived in the states of Michigan and Iowa for a few years,
and in 1858 came to Kansas and settled in Marshall county. Upon coming here Mr.
Reb bought a quarter of a section of land in section 30 of what later was
organized as Vermillion township and there set up a smithy and wagon shop, the
only industry of the kind for miles around, and his services were in immediate
demand, soon having plenty of work. Some four or five years after his marriage
in i860 Mr. Reb abandoned his smithy and gave his whole attention to the
development of his farm, on which he established his home and where he spent the
rest of his life, leaving at the time of his death in 1874 an estate of two
hundred acres of rich bottom land, now owned by his widow, who continues to make
her home there. During the Civil War Henry Reb gave his services to his adopted
country and rendered valuable service to Kansas as a member of the Home Guards.
He was a member of the German Evangelical Association, as is his widow, and both
took an active part in church and other good works hereabout in pioneer days.

    On September 14, i860, in this county, Henry Reb was united in marriage to
Anna Regina Lodholz, who was born at Wurtemberg, Germany, November 10,1838,
daughter of Joseph Frederick and Anna Mary Lodholz, natives of that country, the
former of whom died in the Fatherland in 1843. Four years later, in 1847, the
elder son of the Lodholz family, Godfrey Lodholz, came to the United States and
about five years later, in 1852, another son, George Lodholz, also came. Two
years later, in 1854, the Widow Lodholz and her daughter, Anna Regina, and
another son, Frederick, followed and settled at Terryville, Connecticut, where
they remained until 1858, when they came to Kansas, accompanied by Godfrey
Lodholz and his family and settled on a tract of land they pre-empted six miles
north of Beattie, in this county. Upon coming to Kansas the Lodholz family
proceeded by rail and steamer as far as Atchison, where George met them on
horseback and there procured another horse and a wagon and thus hauled their
household goods over here to their new home in Marshall county, he having
preceded them the year before and selected the land on which they made their
home. Two years after coming to this county, Anna Regina Lodholz married Henry
Reb and has ever since made her home on the land he pre-empted upon coming here,
one of the honored and respected pioneer residents of Marshall county.

    To Henry and Anna Regina (Lodholz) Reb five sons and two daughters were
born, namely: George Henry, who is at home farming the home place for his
mother; Anna Mary, at home; John F., a Marshall county farmer, who married Lulu
L. Jones and has two sons, James Henry and John Maynard, who are now attending
high school at Blue Rapids; Frederick C., who died aged two years and nine
months; William G., owner of a farm adjoining the old home place on the
southwest, who married Susan J. Anderson and has one child, a son, Ralph
William; Helena Christina, at home, and Louis C., owner of a farm adjoining the
home place on the northwest, who married Pearl H. Smith, to which union one
child has been born, a daughter, Christine Lenore. As noted above, Mrs. Reb is a
member of the German Evangelical Association and her children, Henry, Mary,
Helena, William and wife, Louis and wife, are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Barrett; John and his wife belong to the Christian church. Mrs. Reb
has a pleasant home and has ever given her earnest attention to local good
works. As one of the real pioneers of Marshall county, she is thoroughly
familiar with the history of that section of the county in which she has lived
ever since coming out here in the fifties and is a veritable mine of information
on matters relating to the early settlement of the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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