Orville V. Rinehart Biography


	This biography appears on page 1062 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				ORVILLE V. RINEHART. 

	Orville V. Rinehart, a resident of the Black Hills country since 
1905, has important business and professional relations and is actively 
connected with various organized efforts looking to the further 
development of the state, its progress and the utilization of its 
natural resources. Both as an individual and as a public official he 
has had much to do with the work of general improvement and he is now 
aiding in directing the public policy of the state as representative 
from the forty seventh district. He makes his home in Pennington 
county, not far from Rapid City. He was born in 1862 and is descended 
from Holland Dutch and Quaker ancestors, who on coming to America 
settled on the Hudson and Susquehanna rivers in the seventeenth 
century. 

	The boyhood days of Orville V. Rinehart were spent in Wisconsin 
and his early manhood in the states and territories along the Northern 
Pacific. He has lived in Montana and in the city of Minneapolis and 
first came to the Black Hills in 1894, taking up his permanent abode in 
this section of the country in 1905. His life has been an active one in 
the pursuits of surveyor, lawyer and rancher and it has been 
characteristic of Mr. Rinehart that he has carried forward to 
successful completion whatever he has undertaken, while each forward 
step in his career has brought him a broader outlook and wider 
opportunities that he has used for personal advantage along legitimate 
business lines and as well for the benefit of the state. He is now 
actively and financially interested in the Western Land Title & Trust 
Company and in the Van Daren Rinehart Ranches. His business interests 
and his public spirit have made him a close student of many conditions 
affecting the welfare of the state and he has labored to produce 
results which will work for the betterment of South Dakota, especially 
along the line of agricultural development. In this connection he is 
now serving as an officer of the South Dakota Irrigation Association 
and of the Western South Dakota Alfalfa Growers Association as well as 
of the Western Dakota Fair Association. 

	Mr. Rinehart has always given his political allegiance to the 
democratic party and in its local ranks he is an influential factor. 
Service in local offices has been followed by election to the state 
legislature, in which he is now representing the forty-seventh 
district, and with characteristic thoroughness he is giving earnest 
study to questions of vital importance to the commonwealth.