BIO: JACOB H. REIFF, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 398-399
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    JACOB H. REIFF, one of the leading young attorneys of New Cumberland, Lower
  Allen township, Cumberland county, Pa., was born near Lewisberry, Fairview
  township, York county, Nov. 7, 1869. From young boyhood he was determined
  upon a professional life, and after attending several schools.
    
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.	399
    
  He entered the Kutztown State Normal School, where he thoroughly prepared
  himself for Dickinson College. Entering that institution in 1891 he graduated
  in the classical course and law department in 1895. He was admitted to the
  Cumberland County Bar in June, 1895; to the Dauphin County Bar in July, 1896,
  is also a member of the York County Bar, and has been admitted to the Superior
  and Supreme courts. Upon entering on the practice of his profession Mr. Reiff
  settled at New Cumberland, where he has since made his home and established
  business among an excellent class, the number of his clients constantly
  increasing.
    
    In politics Mr. Reiff is a Republican, and he is interested in effecting
  improvements in the church and the city. His religious connections are with
  the Methodist Church, and he is a teacher in the Sunday school, and one of
  the model young men of New Cumberland. Fraternally, he is a member of the Jr.
  O. U. A. M. and the Modern Woodmen. Needless to say his professional
  thoroughness and brilliance, his moral stability, and his fitness as a
  leader, have contributed toward making him very prominent and immensely
  popular in every particular.