Lyman, W. D. "An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, State of
Washington."  W. H. Lever, Publisher, 1901.  p. 413.
 
JOHN REHORN

     a carpenter residing at 416 W. Alder street, a pioneer of 1871, was born at
Niederkleen, near Wetzlar, Germany, March 1, 1846. He resided there until twenty
years old, receiving the customary public-school education, and learning the
carpenter trade. In 1866 he came with his mother and sisters to the United
States, landing in New York, whence, after remaining only ten days, they came
via Panama to Canyon City, Oregon, where Mr. Reborn worked in the placer mines
until 1869, washing out the gold on his own account. Returning then to San
Francisco he followed his trade in that city as a journeyman for two years,
after which he came direct to Walla Walla, where he has worked at his handicraft
continuously since, except between the years 1886 and 1892, when he was
operating a brewery owned by him at Pomeroy, Washington.
     Mr. Reborn learned his trade thoroughly in the first place, as all must who
serve an apprenticeship in Germany, and he has followed the same line
assiduously and almost uninterruptedly for more than thirty years, so that, as
would naturally be expected, he has attained a skill and thoroughness in his
craft seldom found in carpenters on the coast. As a man and a citizen, also, his
standing is of the highest. He has given substantial evidence of his interest in
Walla Walla by serving for nine full years as a member of Tiger Volunteer Fire
Department. He is prominently identified with Enterprise Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O.
F., of which he is a past noble grand.
     In Walla Walla, on September 25, 1877, our subject married Amalia Anchutz,
a native of Waco, Texas, and to their union seven children have been born: John
H., a farmer; Frederich C., a clerk; Walter R., a graduate of the high school,
at present learning the trade of a machinist; Frank, a lumber handler; and
Henry, Louisa and Christina, in school. Mrs. Reborn's father was killed in Texas
during the Civil war on account of his Union principles.


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