BIOGRAPHY: Carl RIVINIUS, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 217-8
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CARL RIVINIUS, a successful and prosperous merchant and highly respected citizen 
of Ebensburg, this county, is a son of Gotleib Ferdinand and Mrs. Catherine 
(Kusterer, nee Haish) Rivinius, and was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, July 4, 
1845.
     Catherine Haish's first husband was a Mr. Kusterer, and their marriage 
union resulted in the birth of five children, one of whom, Ernest Kusterer, came 
to America in 1852, and probably settled in Pennsylvania, but his whereabouts 
has never been positively ascertained.
     Carl Rivinius was educated in the common schools of his native country and 
by private instruction. He served a full apprenticeship of four years in the 
Fatherland at the watchmaker's trade. He then worked ten years at the trade in 
that country as a journeyman, and in 1874 he crossed the Atlantic, seeking a 
home in the new world; for two years he followed journey work in this country.
     In 1875 he came to Ebensburg, and established a watch-repairing and jewelry 
business on his own account in the fall of 1876. His motto has been “Upward and 
Onward,” and he has gone ahead adding to his stock and expanding his business 
until he now has a store that would do credit to many of the stores of a similar 
kind in the larger cities.
     In religious faith and practice he is a Lutheran, having joined that church 
before coming to this country. Fraternally Mr. Rivinius is a member of Highland 
Lodge, No 428, I. O. O. F., at Ebensburg; Ebensburg Conclave No. 367, I. O. of 
H., and Beulah Castle, No. 248, K. G. E.
     On April 14, 1886, Mr. Rivinius and Mary J. Lloyd, a daughter of Abel 
Lloyd, of Ebensburg, were united in Marriage, and their union has been blessed 
in the birth of three children: Ferdinand L., born February 2, 1890, and died 
April 12, 1890; Mary, born February 3, 1891; and Otto, born June 9, 1892.
     Mr. Rivinius is a typical representative of the sturdy German element of 
our citizenship, whose industry, genius and thrift are found in every avenue of 
live.