[44-34b] JOHN RINEWALT, same as above, m 2d time, Apr., 1854, MARGARET MILLER, b Nov. 1, 1818; d Jan. 10, 1891; dau James and Mary (Emerich) Miller.
Left an ophan at the age of two years, John Rinewalt, when old enough, was “bound out.” He received very little schooling, learned the miller’s trade and ran the ‘Moore Hall Mill,” near Phoenixville, Pa., and another in Norristown, Pa.
In 1841 he removed to Illinois and long before any railroad crossed the state, he and his partner built a large stone mill to which people drove ox teams for 40 miles to have their grists ground. They laid out the town of Mt. Carroll, Ill., and established a school which is now (1919) named “THE FRANCES SHIMER SCHOOL.”’ By indefatigable energy, Mr. Rinewalt succeeded in bringing to the town the first railroad in that section, of which he was at first a director and later a vice-president. Aecomplishing what he dit] with the handicap of his early years indicates that John Rinewalt was a man of great force.
One child: [44-85] John Miller, @ Aug. 6, 1856; m Ella May Shirk: