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John D. Reinhardt, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Lincoln County, N. C., in 1834, and is a son of Michael and Maria A. (Allyn) Reinhardt, who were born in Lincoln County, N. C., in 1790, and New London, Conn., 1790, respectively. The mother was a teacher, and when a young lady had charge of an academy at Lincolnton, N. C. During the War of 1812 she lived at New London, and distinctly remembered the sight of the wounded men at that battle. Her father, Robert Allyn, was born in Connecticut, served in the Revolution, and was a member of the famous Cincinnati Society, composed of Revolutionary officers. The grandfather, John Allyn, came from a prominent English family, and in an early day located in Massachusetts. In 1837 he went to New London, Conn., and his death occurred there. He was a son of Robert Allyn, of England. His grandson, Capt. Francis Allyn, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and owned the vessel which brought Gen. LaFayette to the United States in 1824. Michael Reinhardt was tice married, and by his first wife, Mary (Moore) Reinhardt, he had five children. He married Miss Allyn in 1829, and died in 1852. She died in 1867. He and his wife belonged to the Presbyterian Church. He was a farmer by occupation, and lived in Marshall County from 1846 until his death, in 1852. He served in the War of 1812 as captain under Gen. Jackson, and when young represented Lincoln County, N. C., in the State Senate for several years. Christian Reinhardt, his father, was born in the Rhine, in Germany, and when a boy, after the death of his father, accompanied his mother to America. He was a descendant of the nobility in Germany. He served as stationary quartermaster in the Revolution, and died in Lincoln County, N. C. Our subject was the youngest of three children, attended the common schools of the neighborhood when a boy, and at the age of twelve went with his parents to Mississippi, where he lived thirty-three years. In 1856 he was married in Lagrange County, Tenn., to Sallie M., daughter of Joel and Anna Sledge, natives of North Carolina and Alabama, respectively. The father was of Welsh extraction, and died in Texas. The mother was a cousin of D. H. Hill, ex-president of the university at Fayetteville, and she died in Mississippi. Mr. Reinhardt has had eight children, of whom three sons and one daughter are deceased. In 1862 he joined Company K, Thirty-fourth Mississippi Infantry, Benton’s regiment, and served as commissary, operating in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, etc. He fought at Perryville, Ky., Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, went through the Georgia and Atlanta campaign, and accompanied Hood back to Nashville, Tenn., and Franklin, and surrendered with Gen. J. E. Johnston at Hillsboro, N. C., then returning home on foot. He has always been engaged in farming, and served two years as justice of the peace in Mississippi. In 1880 he came to Crawford County, where he has a farm of 600 acres, and deals extensively in stock. He makes a specialty of Holstein cattle and Essex hogs, and has a fine thoroughbred Lexington horse. He also owns a saw-mill at Dora. He is one of the foremost and most enterprising men of the county in all enterprises undertaken for the advancement of the same, and has greatly assisted in improving the stock of the county. He has been a life-long Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Buchanan, and is a member of the Farmers’ Alliance. Himself and wife are highly respected people, and active members in the Presbyterian Church. Both Mr. Reinhardt’s paternal and maternal ancestors were people of note, and he has in his possession a coat-of-arms which belonged to the Allyn family in England over 400 years ago. Several of the Allyn family were massacred at the capture of Fort Griswold, Conn., during the Revolution, and Point Allyn, near New London, was named in honor of the family. Mr. Reinhardt possesses an heirloom in the shape of a violin, bearing the date of 1700, which his great-grandfather Reinhardt brought from Germany.