Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Reiter, D. H., Rev.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   REV. D. H. REITER P.O. Richland Center, pastor of the 
Richland town charge of the Evangelical Lutheran church, was 
born December 22, 1853, in Upper Hanover township, 
Montgomery county, and is a son of Daniel and Edith 
(Weidner) Reiter, both of whose families emigrated from 
Germany prior to the revolution, and settled in this portion 
of the state.  The Weidners settled in Bucks, while the 
Reiters located in Montgomery county.  Daniel Henry, the 
subject of this sketch, received the advantages offered by 
the common schools of his neighborhood, and assisted his 
father in the management of the details about his mill, and 
at the age of 16 left home, and attended the Washington Hall 
academy.  While there he fitted himself for teaching, and 
taught for two years in his native township.  He entered the 
academical department at Muhlenberg college at the age of 
19, and at the age of 21 the freshman class, and was 
graduated in 1878.  In the fall of the same year he entered 
the Theological seminary, was graduated in the spring of 
1881, was ordained at Pottstown immediately after, and in 
July of the same year accepted the pastorate of the Richland 
town charge, embracing four congregations, viz., St. John's, 
at Richlandtown; Zion's of Zion Hill; Christ's at 
Trumbauersville, and Leidy's church of Franconia, Montgomery 
county, which he supplies by appointment, and all of which 
he has under his immediate care.  On March 27, 1883, he was 
married to Emma C., daughter of Rev. S. K. Gross, whose wife 
was Mary Wolf.  They have one child, Frederick Adolphus.