Henry Reichart has been
engaged in business in his native town of Littleport
since 1894 and is one of the representative business
men and well known citizens of Clayton county, where
he has won success and independence through his own
ability.
He was born at Littleport on
the 4th of January, 1869, and is a son of Frederick
and Mary (Dahling) Reichart, both natives of Germany
and both children at the time of the immigration of
the respective families to America. Frederick
Reichart was a lad of fourteen years when his parents
established their home at Guttenberg, Clayton county,
and his wife was thirteen years old when her parents
became residents of the same village. Frederick
Reichart was here reared to manhood, here he learned
the carpenter's trade, and he was for many years one
of the successful contractors and builders of Clayton
county. He died on the 15th of April, 1915, and his
widow now resides in the city of Dubuque.
The eldest of their children
is Augusta, who is the widow of Michael Ronig and who
maintains her home at Dubuque; Louisa is the wife of
Frank Christ, of that city; Dora is deceased; William
resides at Littleport; the subject of this sketch was
the next in order of birth; Lena and Frederick are
deceased; Mary is the wife of William Koeh, of
Elkader; Clara is the wife of Otto Newmaster, of
Dubuque; Charles is a resident of Littleport; and Ida
is the wife of Michael Cuzeick, of Dubuque.
Henry Reichart is indebted
to the public schools of his native county for his
early educational discipline, and in his earlier
youth he gave his attention to agricultural pursuits.
At the age of twenty-one years he began work as a
bridge carpenter for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad Company, and after having been thus
engaged for a period of seven years he engaged in the
merchandise business at Littleport, where he has
since continued to be successfully identified with
this line of enterprise. His tastes and ambitions
have been entirely aside from the activities of
politics and the holding of public office, but his
civic loyalty is unmistakable and his support is
given to the cause of the Democratic party.
On the 4th of April, 1894
Mr. Reichart wedded Miss Louisa Ambruster, who was
born and reared in this county, and they have two
daughters, Pearl and Lanida. The elder daughter was,
in 1916, a student in the Bayless Business College in
the city of Dubuque.
source: History of
Clayton County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical
Times Down to the Present; by Realto E. Price,
Vol. II; pg. 341
-OCR scanned by S. Ferrall
