BIOGRAPHY: Charles A. RINEHART, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 426.

  CHARLES  A. RINEHART,  M. D., Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in 
Pfoutz Valley, Greenwood township, Perry county, Pa., January 17, 1864, son of 
Jeremiah and Frances M. (Kepner) Rinehart.  His grandfather, Jeremiah Rinehart, 
had two children, Jeremiah, father of Dr. Rinehart;  and Mary Ann (Mrs. Theodore 
Emerick).  Jeremiah Rinehart (2) was a farmer in early life.  In 1868, he was 
elected  to the shrievalty of Perry county.  In 1872, he lost the nomination of 
the Democratic convention of his district, for congressman, by a single vote;  
the district being largely Democratic, the nomination was equivalent to 
election.  After his term as sheriff expired, Mr. Rinehart continued farming for 
a short time, and was then engaged successively in hotel-keeping, in mercantile 
business and in carrying on a restaurant.  In 1885, he went into the real estate 
business;  he afterwards studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Kansas.  
Mr. Rinehart is at present in the mercantile business.  His wife was a daughter 
of David Kepner, born November 1, 1846.  Their children are:  Theodore K., born 
December 10, 1865, educated in the common schools and at New Bloomfield Academy, 
where he was a pupil for two years, entered Princeton College, but did not 
complete his course there by reason of ill health, yet received his diploma, 
went to Kansas, read law, and has begun the practise of the profession;  Dr. 
Charles A.;  Annie M. (Mrs. King), of Kansas City, has one child, Ruth;  and 
Mary E., born May 27, 1875, resides at Erie, Pa.  The mother of the family died 
June 17, 1886.  A consistent Christian, a devoted wife, a loving mother, and a 
faithful worker in the church, she possessed the esteem and affection of all who 
knew her.
  After acquiring a good education in the common schools of Perry county, 
Charles A. Rinehart, in 1885, began his professional course at Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, and completed it in 1887, graduating with honor.  He 
first spent a short time at home, and then commenced practise in Garnett, Kas.  
He remained there, however, only four months, and then returned to Perry county, 
and practised at Ickesburg until 1890, when he removed to Lewistown.  Here he 
has built up an extensive and valuable practise.  The Doctor is a member in good 
standing of the following orders:  Lewistown Castle, K. G. E., No. 156;  Holy 
Temple Commandery, K. of M., No. 24, at Lewistown;  Victoria Lodge, No. 911, I. 
O. O. F., Patterson, Juniata county; and Kishacoquillas Lodge, No. 262, Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, Lewistown.  His politics are Democratic.
  Dr. Charles A. Rinehart was married, April 4, 1889, to Emma A., daughter of 
Henry and Rebecca (Prizer) Hopple.  They have one child, Henry Russell, born 
February 10, 1890.  The Doctor and his family attend the Lutheran church.  Mrs. 
Rinehart's father, Henry Hopple, was born in 1812, son of Henry and Nancy 
Hopple.  Her maternal grandparents were Henry and Rebecca (Jackson) Prizer, the 
grandmother having been a niece of Gen. Andrew Jackson, who served in the war of 
the Revolution;  he was one of four brothers, who emigrated from Ireland to 
America in early colonial days.  The children of Henry and Rebecca (Prizer) 
Hopple are:  Nancy, died at the age of eight years;  John P., married Susan 
Haupt, has six children;  Henry L., married Annie Nable, has two children;  
Charles H., married Valeria Baker, has one child;  Mary (Mrs. Charles Brubaker), 
has two children;  Albert D., married Mary Hayes;  Laura R. (Mrs. Richard 
Griffith);  Emma A. (Mrs. Rinehart);  William K., married Cora M. King, has one 
child;  Irvin K.;  and Hattie J.  The father died December 21, 1890.