Ernest G. Reinhardt, M. D.

Ernest G. Reinhardt, M. D.  The professional man is one of the important factors in the personnel of a community, and the physicians, especially, should be represented, so we here record the life sketch of Dr. E. G. Reinhardt of Lyman Township, one of the leading and rising physicians of Ford County, who stand high in his profession, as well as a gentleman and citizen.  He is a native of Golconda, Pope County, Ill.,

and was born September 7, 1863, and was the sixth in a family of eight children, viz:  five sons and three daughters, born unto Carl Frederick and Wilhelmina (Schmidt) Reinhardt.  There are four of the children living:  Charles A., resides in Golconda, Ill., and by trade is a contractor and builder.  At present he is engaged in the furniture business.  He is married.  The Doctor is next in order of birth living; Clara W. is the wife of Sim V. Clanahan, who resides in Golconda, Ill..  He is editor and publisher of the Herald Enterprise, a newsy, folio weekly paper;

--IOOF Cemetery, Golconda, Pope County, Illinois.

Robert resides in Paducah, Ky., and is engaged in merchandising.  His father was a native of the city of Dresden, Germany, and was born December 4, 1823, and died November 4, 1877.  He was a polished gentleman in culture and education and spoke with fluency five different languages.  he was a finished student in the gymnasium.  Be profession he was a landscape designer, who stood high in his native land in his chosen occupation.  We clip from a diploma which was awarded him in Germany:
"This certifies to the fact that Carl F. Reinhardt was for three years Associate Landscape Gardener with Frederick Muller to Fabian Frederick William Otto, Count of Schlabrendorf Seppan, and that he stood in high favor with the Count, as well as his associate, having thoroughly mastered the art of landscape gardening, as well as having acquired a thorough knowledge of the flora of that region."
His father's early life and manhood were mostly spent in the beautiful city of Dresden.  At the age of thirty-one, he and his family, consisting of his wife and three sons, bade adieu to their native land in 1854, and set sail for America, and they landed in the city of Baltimore, Md.  Thence they went to Cincinnati, and from there to Southern Illinois, and located on a farm near Golconda, remaining there until 1856, when they came into the town to reside.  He was a stanch friend to education and all those measures which tend to elevate mankind.  He devoted his time while a resident of Illinois to the culture of flowers. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Reinhardt was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He was a stanch Democrat in his political belief.  In his younger days he was a traveler of some note, mostly over continental Europe.
The mother of the Doctor was a well-educated lady in her native tongue. She was a native of Roitzsch, Germany, and was born September 9, 1830, and died January 16, 1883.  The remains of the Doctor's parents are interred in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery at Golconda, Ill., and beautiful headstones mark their last resting place.

Dr. Reinhardt's early boyhood days were spent upon the farm until three years of age, when his parents came to the town to reside, where he remained until the age of seventeen, and his time was devoted chiefly to attending school.  Like many ambitious boys, the Doctor resolved to launch out in life on his own natural resources, so at the age of seventeen, he left home, and the capital he had was that energetic disposition to make things move.  His first taken up as a typo in a printing office.  He returned home after an absence of two and a half years, and engaged with this brother in mercantile life.  After remaining for a time, he then engaged with the large milling firm of Nordyke, Marmon & Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., where he was employed a portion of each year for seven years with this well-known firm.  The Doctor is a gentleman who possesses much natural ability and acrumen, and this well-known firm found in young Reinhardt a valuable man.  Industry, energy and and indomitable will are the cardinal characteristics of a successful man's life.  Up to this time he had been engaged in the business channels of life, now he resolved to enter a professional life, and chose the field of medicine and surgery.  He read medicine under the eminent practitioner, Dr. J. J. Boone, of Mt. Victory, Ohio, where he made rapid progress.  He entered the Rush Medical College of Chicago, in September, 1888, where the took a full and complete course in medicine and surgery, and as a side study, he took a thorough course, under Prof. Therman W. Brophy, in Dental Pathology and Surgery. He graduated March 30, 1891, in a class of over two hundred.  After his graduation, he paid his old home a visit, ere he settled down to his professional life.  He came to Roberts, Ill., April 28, 1891, where he has laid the sold foundation for a large and lucrative practice.  The Doctor has made a most favorable impression on the people of the vicinity of Roberts, by his courteous and gentlemanly decorum, as well as by his skill in his profession. He is associated with W. H. Bond in the drug business, carrying a full line of staple drugs, oils and all commodities which go to make up a good drug store.  He is public-spirited and generous to all.  He is Chancellor Commander of the K. of P. Lodge No. 293, Roberts, Ill.
Dr. Reinhardt's and Mamie Hales' wedding was celebrated May 31, 1891.  She is a daughter of D. S. F. Hale, and was born January 5, 1866, in Bunker Hill, Ill.  She is an accomplished lady.  She was a student at St. Mary's Academy for two years, at Notre Dame, Ind., and spent two years at the New England Conservatory of Music, at Boston, Mass.  She was a student in vocal music with W. L. Whitney, son of Myron W. Whitney, of musical fame.  Mrs. Dr. Reinhardt is one of a family of five brothers and one sister.  Dr. and Mrs. Reinhardt are classed among the most prominent citizens of the town of Roberts, Ill.

--Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois.  1892.

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