JACOB REIBER, notary public and newspaper correspondent, residing at Pleasant Hill, has acceptably filled a number of the public offices in this section, and is an honored veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Dan W. Williams Post No. 369, G. A. R., at Pleasant Hill. Mr. Reiber was born in Perry County Pennsylvania, September 1, 1836 and is a son of John and Mary (Fenical) Reiber.

John Reiber was born May 26, 1811, in Perry County, Pennsylvania, and in April, 1837, came to Newton Township, Miami County, where he worked at the blacksmith trade until 1849, after which he engaged in farming until the time of his death, April 18, 1872 . His place of burial was the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. He was married (first) to Mary Fenical, June 4, 1835, a daughter of John and Susan Fenical, and there were four sons and three daughters born to this union, namely: Jacob, the only survivor; and Peter, William F., Joseph, Susanna, Margaret I. and Sarah J. The mother of these children died February 23, 1865, and her burial was in the Sugar Grove Cemetery. John Reiber was married (second) to Sarah Katherine Cathron, a daughter of George and Julia Inman. She died in 1889, without issue. For thirty five years John Reiber was a deacon in the Christian Church.

Jacob Reiber went to school in boyhood in Newton Township and then worked on the home farm until his marriage, in 1857, after which he settled on another farm in the same township, which he operated until he entered the army for service in the terrible Civil War. Mr. Reiber enlisted in 1863 in Company G, 110th Regt., O. Vol. Inf., in which he remained, until he was honorably discharged in 1865. As evidence of the hard service he saw, Mr. Reiber has proofs on his own person. On May 5, 1864, when so many brave men fell at the battle of the Wilderness, five bullets left their cruel marks, four of these producing wounds which not only caused him months of intense suffering, but left him with a disabled foot. Honorable as these injuries may be, gained as they were in loyal defense of his country, they were no less hard to endure, and make a claim on the sympathy and gratitude of his fellow citizens which should never be forgotten.

Upon his return home, Mr. Reiber was no longer physically able to engage In agricultural pursuits as formerly, and as his fellow citizens recognized this, they sought to find some mode of life for him in which, in his crippled condition, he could take his place in the world and in a measure enjoy the peace that he had fought and suffered to establish. He was appointed to fill out the latter part of the term of the first mayor of the town, a duty he efficiently performed, and then was twice elected township clerk, and in 1878 was made postmaster at Pleasant Hill. This office he filled acceptably for six years. For the past twenty-seven years he has been a notary public, and has also been the local correspondent for a number of newspapers. Although debarred from much that would have been pleasant and profitable to him, Mr. Reiber has led a most useful and exemplary life, and no one in Pleasant Hill is held in higher esteem.

On August 27, 1857, Mr. Reiber was married to Miss Maria C. Williams, who died September 24, 1905, and was laid to rest in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The five children born to this marriage were: William, who died May 6,1864.; Roselia J., who lives with her father; Arthur L., who is deceased; J. Warren, who lives in North Carolina; and Charles C., who resides at Marion, Indiana. He married Kittie E. Brandon, who is a daughter of Samuel H. Brandon, and they have one daughter, Treva Irene, Mr. Reiber's only grandchild.

In his political sentiments he is a stanch Republican, following in the footsteps of his father, and has never swerved in his allegiance. When seventeen years of age he united with the Christian Church, and has remained a consistent member of this religious body.