L. O. REINIG
L O. Reinig is a son of John M. and Johanna Reinig, and was born in the Rhine province, Germany, November 5, 1841. In 1850 he emigrated with his parents to America, locating in New York city. Two years later they removed to Attica, Wyoming county. New York, where the subject of this sketch was partially educated. In 1855 they moved to Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio; there he completed his education, and in 1857, came to Iowa with his brother, who had been in business in Ohio. They located at Des Moines. In the spring of 1862, L. O. Reinig went south, was connected with the army until 1865; then went to New York city, where he was offered a position as salesman in a wholesale house, remaining there until the fall of 1867, at which date he came to Cass county, and located at Lewis, engaging in the dry goods trade. His parents died in Des Moines, his father in December, 1879, and at the age of eighty-two years; his mother in February, 1882, aged seventy-nine years. L. O. Reinig was married in Lewis, November 8, 1869, to Laura J. Woodward, a daughter of one of the early settlers of this county. They have two children living--Frederick Woodward and Hugh Marshall. They lost one child in infancy. Mr. Reinig owns real estate in Lewis, a farm in Bear Grove township, and land in Sioux county. He was the second mayor of Lewis, succeeding Mr. Stuart, who was the first. He is a member of the Masonic order, and has held the offices of president, director and secretary of the school board. He is one of the prominent business men of Lewis, and a highly respected citizen.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 534.
