The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-15
WEALTH COMES AS A SURPRISE
Estate of Great Grandfather Finally
Reaches Grandscns After Being Held
for Years by Courts of German En-
pire.

"oIAlnS III oVerallS ana jumper at a
bench in the machine shop of the Thorn
as b. Jeffery company is a young man
who is the son of millionaire. In
fact the young man has been notified
that the wealth of his father amounts
to close to two million dollars but not
wlthstanding this fact he is working
away at the bench and has made no
plans to quit his Job and go to his
fathers home. The young man is Z.
Il. Relnhart, who resides at 318 Ex-
change street and his father is w. H.
Reinhart Of Roanoke, Va. Reinhart is
just past twenty-one years of age and
he has just received letter from his
father telling of an inheritance which
the father has received from the estate
of his great grandfather in Germany.
The story of the estate reads like
page from fairy story. Members of
the Reinhart family have been living
in the United States for nearly hun
dred years and while the family has
been a well to do thrifty family none
Of the members has been troubled with
dreams of the fabulous wealth that has
been handed out to the third genera
ton, Young Reinhart declares that
there is no doubt as to the authenticity
of the story of the inheritance and that
before the new year opens his father
will receive from the German govern
ment the sum of over 81, 100000. Way
back in the opening Of the nineteenth
century the Reinhart family were resi-
dents of a little town in one of the
German provinces. Emanuel Reinhart
was the great grandfather of the faith
er of the Kenosha man and when he
was well along in years he disappeared
from his home. At the time of his dis
appearance he had no estate and when
years passed and nothing was heard
of him he was forgotten, The members
of the family came to America and set
tied in Pennsylvania. Grandfather
Emanuel probably never knew that the
family immigrated to America. AS far
back as 1885 officials of the German
courts discovered that Emanuel Rein
hart had died leaving vast estate
but no trace could be found of the
heirs to the estate. The will Of the old
man left the estate which is row said
to be valued at $3,57S,0OO to the Sec
ond generation of his family and at
torneys and German officials have for
years been searching for the rightful
heirs to the property. The Kenosha
boy grew to manhood in Baltimore and
he built no castles in the air as he
never heard the story of the wealth
of the old German. When he came to
Kenosha two months ago he knew no
thing of the fact that an attorney had
been looking in Chicago for heirs to
the estate. Through the discovery of
the Kenosha man the attorney located
his father in Roanoke and through him
discovered that the second generation
of descendants of Emanuel Reinhart
had long since been gathered to their
fathers and that the surviving heirs
of these men were w. H. Remnant of
Roanoke and William Reinhart of
Baltimore. Steps were Immediately
taken to establish the rights of these
two men to the estate held by the Ger
man courts and a week ago the courts
handed down decision holding the
two Americans the rightful heirs to
the estate. "I never knew anything
about the estate' said Reinhart, when
seen at his bench on Monday, "until
[ got a letter, from father a couple
of days ago telling me that he had
been declared one Of the heirs. I have
been working all my life and sup
pose 1 will keep right ON at my work
of learning the automobile business.
Father was just as much surprised as I
am ana he has made no plans for the
future
Young Reinhart has one brother and
six sisters all living in Roanoke.