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    JACOB REICHMAN

    Jacob Reichman, whose farming operations in Newberry township are among the most successful carried on in that portion of the county, and who is a member of a family long and favorably known there, was born in Miami county, May 11, 1858, a son of John C. and Katherine (Gensley) Reichman. The parents of Mr. Reichman were well-known and highly respected farming people of Miami county, where they passed their entire lives. John C. Reichman enlisted for service in the Union army early in the war between the North and the South, being a private in the One Hundred and Tenth regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a hard-fighting organization which saw much active service, and with which Mr. Reichman was connected for four years. At the close of his military service he resumed his farming operations, and was engaged there in until his death in 1890 By his marriage with Katherine Gensley, he was the father of four children: Con, who is a retired agriculturist living at Covington, Ohio; Barney, who is also retired after a career spent in agriculture and likewise lives at Covington, Julie, the wife of Samuel Bitner, a farmer of Newberry township, and Jacob. By a subsequent marriage, Mr. Reichman had one daughter, Mary, the widow of Henry Wilke, living at Covington. Jacob Reichman received his education in the public schools of Miami county, and as a youth assisted his father and brothers in the work of cultivating the home farm. He remained under the parental roof until ready to enter upon his independent career, and since then has accumulated 160 acres of good land in Newberry township, his comfortable home being located on Covington R. F. D. No. 4. He has other good buildings and modern improvements and is justly adjudged one of the progressive and enterprising agriculturists of his community. Mr. Reichman was united in marriage with Sarah J., daughter of Jacob Reesor, a farmer of Miami county, and to this union there have been born two children: Roscoe, who assists his father on the home farm, and Pearl C., the wife of Lewis Sarver, a farmer of this county. Mr. Reichman is one of the public-spirited men of his community, where he bears an excellent reputation for integrity and fair dealing, and during the war period he and his son were generous contributors to all war activities.

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