Peter Charles Reinholt Biography


	This biography appears on page 1841 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	PETER CHARLES REINHOLT, one of the representative business men of 
Irene, Clay county, where he is senior member of the well-known firm of 
Reinholt & Jorgensen, was born in Denmark, in the year 1858, and there 
attended the excellent national schools until he had attained the age 
of fourteen years, in the meanwhile working on the farm during the 
summer months. At the age of fifteen he began working at gardening, and 
continued to be identified with this line of enterprise until his 
twenty-second year, when he accompanied his parents and the other 
members of the immediate family on their immigration to America. For 
the first three years they resided in the city of Chicago, Illinois, 
and there the subject learned the trade of mason and plasterer. At the 
expiration of the period noted the family came to South Dakota, 
locating forthwith in the vicinity of the present village of Irene, 
Clay county. In this county the subject followed the work of his trade 
about four years, and then effected the purchase of eighty acres of 
land, improving the same with good buildings and there continuing to be 
actively engaged in agricultural pursuits for the ensuing fourteen 
years. He still owns this farm, which is maintained under a high state 
of cultivation, and which has materially appreciated in value during 
the intervening years. At the expiration of the period noted Mr. 
Reinholt moved into the village of Irene and established his present 
business enterprise, which has been prosperous from its initiation and 
which has attained to wide scope and importance as taken in a 
comparative way with similar undertakings in other agricultural 
sections of the commonwealth. He is also a contractor on a rural free 
mail-delivery route, owning the teams and wagons and employing 
subordinates to operate the same. In politics he accords a stanch 
allegiance to the Republican party and has been a member of the board 
of school directors for a number of years past. He holds to the 
Protestant faith in religion, while fraternally he is identified with 
the Masonic order, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Danish 
Brotherhood.

	Mr. Reinholt was married to Miss Anna Jacobson, this being prior 
to the immigration to America, and they have five children.