"John Reinhold, the Captain's father, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1817. When a young man he learned the tanner's trade and for a number of years carried on the manufacture of leather in connection with agricultural pursuits. He continued farming and tanning on his own place until about l849, when he purchased the old homestead, after which he devoted considerable of his attention to the raising of live stock, especially cattle He also bought and shipped cattle upon an extensive scale and for quite a number of years did a large and thriving business, but meeting with financial reverses in 1872 was obliged to retire from active life. In 1882 he came to Canton, Ohio, and from that time until his death, ten years later, lived with his son, the subject of this review."