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 COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES removed to Rush township, Northum­ berland county, where he became a prominent citizen and took a warm interest m the affairs of the county. H e was a mcmlier of the I’ resbylerian Church and one of the active promoters of the Mahoning G iu rch at Danville, which he assisted in building. For years he scr-c<l as one of the elders of the congregation. During the latter years o f his life he made hi.s home in Danville, where he died in 1862, Ilis w ife having preceded him in 1854. Both are interred in the Fair%icw cemetery. When quite young M r. Shults married Elizabeih .Vfaustellar, and thcir home was blessed with eleven children; Matilda, wife o f Abraham Hendrickson; facob, who mar­ ried Elizabeth Shultz; Phifip, who married Kate D cw ald; Katherine, w ife o f Jesse M cnsch; Janies, who married Elizabeth S h ire s: .Mary, w ife o f Jam es W oodside; .falieriy, who married Caroline H eim; D.inicl, who married M argaret Ephlin; Mahala. wife o f .Amos V astinc; and Peter ami William, who died in early youth. J O S E P H H A M M E T T R IN A R D. agent of the Adam s Exp ress Company and proprietor of the Catawissa Five and Ten Cent Store, is a n.itive o f Catawissa, bom in the town Oct. >5, 1858, and is a member o f a well known fam ily o f pioneers o f this State. Solomon Dyer Rinard, his father, was a native o f Pennsylvania, having been bom in what is now Shamokin Ja n. 27, 1827. H is father, Conrad Rinard, was o f German de­ scent and a farm er by occupation. In 1830, with his w ife and six children, he crossed the .Alleghenies in one of the old “ prairie schoon­ ers” and settled in Armstrong county, Pa. T liree years later Jacob Dyer, who had married M ary M. Rinard, a sister o f Conrad, brought the little boy back to Catawissa to join his older sister, M ary D. Rinard. who had already lived with them. Jacob D )cr at that time w as a merchant on the com er now occupied by H . R . Baldy’s store. lu t c r he p u rch as^ the “ Catawissa House,” and here Solomon D yer Rinard grew to manhood, receiving only the meager education of the public schools o f that d a y; but being o f a studious, observing disposition, he became widely known for his general knowledge of the details o f everyday life, and his advice, so often asked, w as al­ ways freely given. Solomon D yer Rinard I^ m c d the trade o f tinsmith with Isaac Linvillc, and later bought out his employer, car­ rying on the business in the place now occu­

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pied by the Baldy homestead, near the com er o f Mam and Third streets. In i8 6 i he bought the com er and built the store and workshop (now occupied by his son) into which he moved his rapidly increasing business o f man­ ufacturing and selling tinware, stoves, etc., selling the product o f a number o f men throughout Columbia county. In 1872 he sold the business to A. B. Cleaver, remodeled the building and opened a general store which he conducted until a few years before his death, when age and poor health compelled him to relinquish active work. M r. Kinard was a director of the Catawissa Deposit Bank, Catawissa's first banking house, and one of the o t^ n iz e rs of the F irst National Bank in 18 9 1, M n g its vice president until, on the death o f J. H. Vastine. he became president, an office he ffiled until his death. M r. Rinard w as a Republican from the birth of the party. H e held Ihe postinastership o f Catawissa, Pa., under Lincoln, John­ son and Grant, and, allvavs progressive, he was the first to get the daily papers through from Pliiladelphia on the day tncy were is­ sued. the papers arriving at 3.30 p. m .— a n event in those days. H e w as a charter mem­ ber of S t M atthew's E. L. G m rch, an elder and trustee, superintendent of the Sunday school for many years, and for thirty-one years church treasurer. Fraternally he was a member of the local Masonic bodies, blue lodge and chapter. M r. Rinard was married first to Elizabeth Frederick, who cited in 1854. and by her had one child, M ary Elizabeth, now the widow o f Carl M. von D orstcr; she has one child, Her­ bert Rinard von Dorstcr. who married F lo r­ ence Faus Beishline, and they arc the parents o f one child, Herbert RinarcT von Dorstcr 2d. F o r his second w ife Mr. Rin.ard married A n ­ gelina Harlcnstine. o f Chester countv, who died in 18S4. B y her he had three children, Joscph Hammett, .Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Emm a, who died in young womanhood. Solomon D yer Rinard w'as a self-made man in the fullest sense, a man of great probity, a good citizen, and h.ad a very high sense of the responsibilities o f life. He died N ov. 7, 19 10, at the ripe age o f nearly eighty-four years. Joscph Hammett Rinard attended Ihe pub­ lic schools and entered his father's store as clerk, also assisting him in the express busi­ ness. H e continued to clerk for his father until the latter retired, and then assumed the entire charge of the store, conducting it un­ til 1909, when he opened a 5 and 10 cent store on Main street, the third o f its kind in