Reyner, Frank

REYNER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/1/2007 at 23:02:59

Reyner, Frank S:

Iowa Press Association Who’s Who in Iowa 1940. Jackson County Section by Helen O. Stoddard.

Reyner, Frank S: Manufacturer; born Canton, Iowa, April 17, 1889; son of Samuel Winfield Reyner-Mary Carr; education Canton; Toledo, Ohio, civil engineering course; married Nellie E Cruise, April 6, 1910, Olin (deceased 1915): son Franklin W; daughter Harriet E (Mrs Arthur L Koppes); married Phrella Clark, October 4, 1934, Galena, Illinois; 1905-08 on father’s farm; 1908-12 employed in general merchandise store, Hale; 1912-19 did concrete construction work for CM&StP RR & Bates & Rogers Construction Company, Chicago, Illinois; 1919-26 manufacturer of concrete vaults, Monmouth; 1926- operator cement vault manufacturing company, Maquoketa; 1922-26 member city council; chairman Building Trades Commission of Maquoketa; 1912-19 assistant superintendent concrete construction CM&StP RR; 1916 submitted estimates on $6,000,000 track elevation in Chicago, Illinois; National Concrete Burial Vault Association, chairman advertising committee; Commercial Club; Izaak Walton; Methodist Church; Republican; hobby: remodeling old structures; great grandfather John Reyner built 1st woolen mill west of the Mississippi River at Ozark; office & residence 108 W Monroe, Maquoketa.