Bios: Henry H. Reinert, (b. 1852): Douglass Twp, Berks Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Betty Burdan bjburdan@postoffice.ptd.net USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________________ From: Morton L Montgomery, "Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1909. p 676 Surnames mentioned: Focht, Hafer, Hartman, Hatfield, Leidy, Miller, Reinert, Romich, Sands, Sassaman, Weasner, Wendling, Morton Montgomery Article HENRY H. REINERT. The Reinert family, of more than a century's residence in Berks County, PA., is worthily represented in the present day by Henry H. Reinert, of Boyertown. John Reinert was a resident of Amity township, Berks County. His will, made in 1839 and probated in 1847, is on record in Volume 9, page 218 [Berks Co. Court- house]. His wife Mary was living at the making of the will, and the following children are named in that document: Isaac; John; Elizabeth; and Catherine (m. Elijah Focht). Peter Reinert, brother of John and great-grandfather of Henry H., lived in District Township, Berks County. His will, on record in Volume 10, page 600 [Berks County Courthouse], was proved Nov. 19, 1859. His wife Maria was well provided for, and their sons, John and Samuel, were executors. Their children were: John, Samuel, Peter, Carl and Elizabeth. Samuel Reinert, son of Peter and grandfather of Henry H., was born in 1790, and is buried in the old graveyard at Boyertown. He was a farmer and had an eighty- four acre farm in Douglass Township, Berks County. He built thereon a house and barn to take the place of those destroyed by fire one Sunday afternoon while his son was shooting, a spark igniting the straw roof. In 1811 he married Hannah Romich, born Jan. 15, 1791, died Feb. 13, 1864. Their children were: Mary m. Israel Weasner, and had no children, although they reared Israel Reinert to whom was given their property; Johannes (John), born April 23, 1816, died Feb. 25, 1852, the father of Harry, and Hannah and Israel (twins who were only two weeks old when their father died); David; Samuel died at Morysville, leaving Jefferson, Eton, Hannah, Harriet and Frank; Hannah m. Mark Sassaman, a relative of the late Judge Augustus Sassaman of Berks County, and they had children, Irvin, Eton, Curosy, Clayton, Alice and Annie (deceased). David Reinert, son of Samuel and father of Henry H., was born in Douglass Township, and died at Englesville, April 6, 1907, aged eighty-three years, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Boyertown. By trade he was a carpenter, and followed it for some years in Douglass Township on the Reinert homestead, which consisted of eighty-four acres of excellent farming land, now the property of George Miller. David Reinert married Mary Hatfield, a sister of Samuel G. Hatfield, formerly county commissioner, and daughter of George and Mary (Geiger) Hatfield, of Douglass Township. They had eight children as follows: Samuel died unmarried; Sarah died at the age of seventeen; Henry H.; Frank died of typhoid fever at the age of nineteen while teaching school; Mary Hannah married Solomon Wendling, of Pottstown; John is of West Reading; David, of Gabelsville, is engaged in farming; Amanda m. Frank Sands, of Engelsville. David Reinert spent his last days with Mr. and Mrs. Sands in their pleasant home at Englesville. He was a man widely known and much respected and his loss was severely felt not only by his family, but throughout the neighborhood. Henry H. Reinert, of Boyertown, son of David, was born in Douglass Township, July 17, 1852. When nineteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade, and followed it for sixteen years in Boyertown and vicinity. In 1888 he engaged in the produce business, and now conducts a huckster route, buying butter, eggs and poultry, and these he takes to Philadelphia weekly. He has a large retail trade there, and he has made a big success of his business. His home is in his own substantial brick house, and he and his family are in very comfortable circumstances. In politics Mr. Reinert is a Democrat, and for one year served as constable. In 1890 he was elected school director, and he served in this office for eighteen consecutive years, and still holds it. For many years he acted as treasurer of the board. Since its organization he has been one of the directors of the Topton Orphans Home. He and his family are members of the Lutheran Church, of which he was deacon and trustee, and he was president of the church council for two years. In 1876 Mr. Reinert married Ellen Hartman, daughter of Daniel and Phoebe (Hafer) Hartman, of Douglass Township, and they have children as follows: Daniel, a veterinary surgeon at Girard, Erie Co., PA; D. Edward, who works with his father in the produce business; Annie R., m. to Daniel Leidy, of Boyertown; George W., of Boyertown; Ida a graduate of the Keystone State Normal School of Kutztown, class of 1906, who taught her first term of school at Greshville, and the following one in New Jersey, but is now stationed in Boyertown.