Jacob Reinbold Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 1100-1101

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JACOB REINBOLD, a progressive and successful farmer of Edmunds county, 
makes his home in Madena township. He was born in the southern part of 
Russia, about forty miles from the Black Sea, in 1870. 

The father of our subject, Bildesar Reinbold, came to America in 1885 
and located near Ipswich, Edmunds county, South Dakota, where he took a 
pre-emption and engaged in farming three years, after which he moved to 
Madena township, Edmunds county, and there took a homestead farm. The 
grandfather of our subject, Martin Reinbold, went from Germany to 
Russia about eighty-five years ago. 

Jacob Reinbold attended school after coming to America and at the age 
of twenty two years began working for his living. He assisted his 
father in the farm work until about twenty-five years of age, and in 
1892 took a homestead claim in Edmunds county, South Dakota. He now 
owns two hundred and twenty acres of land, sixty-five acres of which is 
in pasture land, and he engages in the raising of wheat and cattle. He 
now has about fifteen head of cattle and nine horses and all necessary 
machinery for the work of the farm. 

Our subject was married in 1895 to Lena Neisz, a daughter of George 
Neisz, a farmer and early settler of Madena township. Mrs. Reinbold was 
born in Russia and reared and educated in America. Two children have 
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Reinbold. as follows: Gracie and Mary. Mr. 
Reinbold is township treasurer and school clerk and has served as 
chairman of the board of supervisors. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reinbold are 
members of the Catholic church. Politically our subject is a Democrat.