Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Reiter, Michael 1864 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com October 21, 2006, 9:13 pm Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908) MICHAEL REITER, ex-sheriff of Nobles county, and a Grand Prairie township farmer and stockraiser, has been a resident of the county twenty-four years. He was born in Kenosha county, Wis., Jan. 9, 1864, the son of Jacob and Mary (Seivert) Reiter. The father is a native of Germany, but came to the United States when a boy. He is now living in Kenosha county, Wis., and is 78 years of age. Our subject's mother was also a native of Germany. She died in Wisconsin in 1901. Mike Reiter was raised in his native county on his father's farm, and there secured a common school education. In 1884 he left home and went to Osceola county, Iowa, where he spent the summer season working on a farm. In the fall of the same year he came to Nobles county and secured employment in the threshing business and at farm work, spending the winter in the western part of the county. During the summers of 1885 and 1886 he worked on the farm of William Althoff, working at the threshing business during the falls. He purchased a team of horses in 1887 and thereafter until 1890 he was engaged in western Nobles county in breaking prairie land and threshing. At Adrian on Jan. 28, 1890, occurred the marriage of Mr. Reiter to Miss Mary Vogelsberg, a daughter of Joseph and Gertrude Vogelsberg and a native of Kenosha county, Wis. To them have been born the following children, all of whom live at home: Frances, Joseph, Susie, Jacob, Katie, Tracy, Victoria, Celia, and Vincent. After his marriage Mr. Reiter rented the farm where he now lives—the southeast quarter of section 5, Grand Prairie township—and that has been his home ever since. He purchased the farm in 1893 and later bought eighty acres of land on section 30, Westside township, which he still owns. The home place cost him $28 per acre— land that today is worth $100. He engaged in the farming business there until the first of January, 1901, when he moved to Worthington to accept the office of sheriff of Nobles county, to which office, he had been elected on the democratic ticket in the fall of 1900. He served a two year term and then returned to his farm, where he has resided since. Mr. Reiter engages in strockraising quite extensively, having high grade cattle, horses, hogs and sheep. Since the year 1894 he has been engaged in the actioneer business, having practically all the work of the west end of Nobles county as well as portions of nearby counties. In the councils of the democratic party Mr. Reiter takes an active interest and important part, having attended many county and state conventions. Prior to his election as sheriff, Mr. Reiter served six years as a member of the Grand Prairie township board, and upon his return to the township he was chosen chairman of the board of supervisors, an office he has held ever since. He is a director of school district No. 39, which office he has held three years. He is a member of the Catholic church of Ellsworth and of the Catholic Order of Foresters of the same village. Additional Comments: Extracted from: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY MINNESOTA BY ARTHUR P. ROSE NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA PUBLISHERS 1908 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/nobles/bios/reiter86gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb