Patrick W. Rieb Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: William F. (Bill) Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: RIEB
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1146

   PATRICK W. RIEB, superintendent of the Direct United States Cable
Company, limited, at Rye Beach, N. H., has been located here for the last
thirty years, having held his present position for the last two years. He
was born in Dublin, Ireland, November 5, 1854, a son of John and Mary
(Byrne) Rieb, the father being a watch maker.
   Patrick W. Rieb was educated in Dublin by the Christian Brothers. He
left school at the age of fourteen years and "was then employed in a law
office in Dublin for about a year. He then joined the telegraph service, was
ten years with the government service in Dublin and Birmingham, during
which time he edited and published the Telegraph Journal, subsequently
joining the Direct Cable Company at Chester, England, being clerk in charge
there for three years. He then came to America to take his present position
at Rye Beach.
   Mr. Rieb married Annie Smith, who was born at Tipton, England, a
daughter of Thomas Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Rieb have four children: Wil-
liam Ernest, an operator in the employ of the Cable Company; Frederick,
also an operator; George, engaged in the same business; and Florence, wife
of Alexander J. Yeats, an architect at Boston, Mass. Mr. Rieb is a repub-
lican in politics, but votes with judgment, occasionally disregarding party
line. He attends the Congregational church, which he has served as warden
and treasurer.

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