Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 893,
 
ELMER E. RINEHART

     is sheriff of Lake county, Oregon, having been elected, to that office on
the Republican ticket in the spring of 1904. He came to Lake county in 1894 and
engaged in the saw mill business in partnership with Rhesa A. Hawkins, a pioneer
of the county, under the firm name of Hawkins & Rinehart. Their plant is
situated in the Crooked creek valley, where the company also owns a large tract
of timber and agricultural lands. They are still running the mill with profit,
and in addition they are quite extensively engaged in the business of cattle
raising and farming.
     Mr. Rinehart is a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, and was horn January 29,
1864. His father, David G. Rinehart is a native of Pennsylvania, but removed to
Ohio about the time of the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Upon
the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in the army and his military record
covers a period of three and one-half years, during which time he was a
participant in some of the most severe battles of the war. among which may be
mentioned the battle of Bull Run. He's still living in Ross county, Ohio, at the
age of eighty-two years.  Our subject's mother was Elizabeth (Erlywine)
Rinehart, a native of West Virginia. She had attained the age of sixty-five
years when she died, in 1895.
     Mr. Rinehart was a member of a family of eleven children, eight of whom are
still living. The first twenty years of his life were spent in the state of his
birth. In 1884 he came west and settled in Surprise valley, California. During
his boyhood he mastered the trade of stationary engineer, and since coming to
the west has followed that trade, his work being confined to the running of
engines in lumber and grist mills.
     On May 20, 1888, Mr. Rinehart was married to Addie Peters, a native of
California, and daughter of Claus Peters, a German by birth, and a pioneer of
California. Claus Peters was one of the first settlers in Surprise valley, and
his death occurred there December 14, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have been
parents of one child, a son by the name of Clarence D.
     It may be said to the credit of Mr. Rinehart that he started in business in
Lake county ten years ago without a dollar in his own name; but so diligently
has he applied his energies to his business and so faithfully has he met all
adversities that he is now in the best of circumstances and enjoys the good will
of a wide circle of friends.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.