Charles Reinecke Biography


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CHARLES REINECKE, an extensive land owner and prosperous merchant 
residing near Athol, in Spink county, is one of the well known men of 
that locality, and is classed among the energetic and capable members 
of his community. He is one of the leading lumber and coal dealers of 
the county, and also handles farm implements, brick, wire, paint, etc., 
and arrived at his present circumstances by the exercise of earnest 
industry and the strictest honesty. His farms, adjoining the town and 
scattered throughout the county, are under the highest state of 
cultivation and have been improved under the direct supervision of Mr. 
Reinecke. 

Our subject was born in Woodland, Sauk county, Wisconsin, May 7, 1857. 
His father was a farmer in that locality for many years, and retired to 
Wonewock in 1888. He was a soldier in the Civil war and served from the 
beginning until the end of the war. Our subject assisted on his 
father's farm until, at the age of sixteen years, he accepted a 
position in a store, remaining there for two years, after which he took 
a course of German with Schulenberg in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, for about 
two years. At the age of twenty he attended the high school at 
Wonewock, graduating at the end of one year in the business course. His 
father entered a partnership in a general store in 1878, and our 
subject took charge of the work and interests of his father. The 
partnership was dissolved by the purchase of his interest by our 
subject's father, and in 1880, to meet a debt caused by the failure of 
the Wonewock Wagon Company, in which his father was a stockholder, the 
general store was disposed of, and the following year our subject 
located in Spink county, South Dakota. He took the northwest quarter of 
section 17 in Athol township, and engaged in farming thereon for eleven 
years. He returned to his old home in Wisconsin in 1892, remaining 
there until April of the following year, when he returned to Dakota and 
purchased the Athol Lumber & Coal Yard. His business has been 
prosperous and he enjoys the patronage from a large scope of country. 
He is the owner of three farms, which he rents, and one comprising 
three hundred and twenty-five acres, which he cultivates himself to 
small grain. He winters about twenty-five head of cattle and has two 
hundred and eighty-five acres of fenced pasture. His farm near the town 
comprises three hundred and twenty-eight acres, and he possesses three 
blocks and two lots within the limits. 

Our subject was married February 8, 1880 to Miss Rhoda E. Blish, of 
Summit, Wisconsin. Five children. all of whom are at home, have been 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Reinecke, and are named as follows: Mattie, Fred 
A., Emma, Myrl, Hazel Dorothy. Mr. Reinecke is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is an active worker 
for the advancement of his locality, and has filled various local 
offices with credit and ability. He has been a member of the township 
board of supervisors, and is at present town and school treasurer. He 
was formerly a Republican in political sentiment, but is now identified 
with the Populist party. He votes for the state control of liquors, and 
favors equal suffrage. He is strong in his convictions and stands 
firmly for his party.