Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-10-04
The Democratic Nominee.

w. A. Rienhart, who has oeen
10 minated by the democrats us a
candidate for the Legislature for
this district, is not generally known
in this county and for this reason
we clip from the Clifton Forge Re
xietC short sketch OF his life, which
after reading we feel sure the dem
ocrats of Highland will give him
their hearty support. 1t is as fol-
lows
wv. A. Rinehart nominated"
And so it is true that William
Alolizo Rinehart of Allegheny Co.,
Is the standard-bearer of the demo-
cratic party to represent this dis
trict in the legislature.
Who bel and what is he might
he spoken in few words. He is a
man, a christian AMI a gentleman;
he is a patriot. a mason, democrat
and a wide-awake business man.
He has won an enviable position
in our midst where others went
down,-rising upon his own merits
lby the simple genius of industry
welded to integrity, and allied with
good hard common sense,-that
kind of common sense which Is so
uncommon, so scarce but so yalua-
bic to the possessor!
He CAME to Allegheny county
with no backing save brawny arm
a brave heart and willing mind.
With this capital, and this alone,
)he has mounted to prosperity and
now has the leisure to serve the
people, and he will serve them we'll.
The smell of corruption will never
faint his clothes and fraud will find
in hum a bitter enemy.
He was born III the town of Fin
castle, Botetourt.cOunty, Va, in the
wear l845. John and Mary Jane
Rinehart were his parents--worthy
ancestors of a worthy son.
When the tocsin Of war sounded
and the blast of Nirginia's bugle
summoned her sons to defend her
fame, William 4. Rinehart, then a
youth of seventeen, buckled on his
sword and with that gallant band
of ckeralLierS, the BOtetOurt troop
afterwards so famous as company
&C" second Virginia cavalry, march
ed to the front to meet the Invaders.
All through that long and bloody
conflict Wherever the cleaning
sword of Munford's old regiment
flashed there that youthful soldier
could be found. He heard the
music of more than Il hundred bat
tles: He followed Stuart and Lee
and Hampton, and was thrice
wounded in the conflict OF battle.
When the war was over and Maj
H. b. Mcclellan, of Stnart's staff.
came to write the history Of Stuart's
men, he wrote the war record OF w.
A. Rinehart in three words:
"A GALLANT FELLOW"
In 1875 Mr.. Kinehart moved to
Allegheny county and was given a
position with the LOw-mOOr mining
,company-that company then in
its infancy now the magnificent
Low-moor iron company. For SIX
wears he held this place. Success
from the very first was the reward
of his industry and judgement, and
many the thousands of tons of no /
ore has he taken from its hiding
Mace and added it to the world s
wealth. He is still engaged in that
business; but his aspiring intellect
seems to have reached out further,
and what was then bis chief bust
ness is now the smallest iron he has
in the fire.
Railroad building is at the pres
.ent time the ruling passion Of his
industry. and many the mile of rail-
road work has been done by GOoch,
Rinehart & Co., whose fame as rail-
way builders is known in every state
in the union. This company has
now on hand portion of Chicago's
great canal to build-a contract to
the extent of at least eight hundred
thousand dollars.
MIR. Rinehart was married in De-
cember, 1866, to Miss Mary Lewis
Lipes. The issue of this marriage
was nine children. lie lost his first
wife in 1894 and married his sec
ond wife something like year ago,
her IN .iden name being Miss Elaen-
or C Harper, a granddaughter Of
the late General Kenton Harper, an
officer in the Mexican war and q
citizen of StauntOn. Va.
Mr.. Rinehart has never before
been in the field for Office, and on
this occasion he did not seek tine
nomination. /! came to him pn-
solicited. :.
He has never professed any poll
tics but those of JefferSonion dem
Ocracy, ard with this he is thor
l.. -, Luo1