Edwards, Rev. Jonathan.  "An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of
Washington."  San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1900.  p. 386.
 
EZRA D. RINEAR

     a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Michigan, born in Cass county March 8,
1854. He was raised there on a farm. In 1877 he started west and located in
California, then in Oregon, and in April, 1878, arrived in Spokane. He took up
one hundred and sixty acres of land and purchased a second quarter-section
fifteen miles southeast of town and resided there until the fall of 1894, when
he was elected sheriff of the county on the People's party ticket and served for
two years. Mr. Rinear is heavily interested in mining properties in Washington,
Idaho and British Columbia. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Woodmen of the
World. He was married in Cass county, Michigan, October 19, 1872, to Minerva
Tompkins, a native of Ohio. They have three children: Clarence E., Charles B.
and Nora B.


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