Rev. David B. Rinehart
Rev. David B. Rinehart was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, November 21, 1825, and came to Shelby County with his parents, Abraham and Catherine Rinehart. His mother died when he was eleven years of age, or in 1836. He then went to live with his grandfather, Peter Rinehart, in Perry Township, with whom he remained one year, or until 1837, when he went back to Fairlield County and made his home with his mother’s sister, where he attended school until 1841, when he returned to Shelby County and began teaching school in Perry Township. In 1843 he went to Dayton, Ohio, where he learned the baker and confectionery trade, and a few years later found him located in Sidney, engaged in the baking and confectionery business, which, in connection with a grocery and provision store, he conducted with success until 1861, when, leaving his home and business, he was one among the first men in the county to respond to the call from the Government for soldiers, and on the 6th day of April, 1861, he enlisted in Company E. 15th O. V. I., for three months. He was discharged at the end of four months, being kept one month over his time of enlistment. He went out with the Benton Cadets as 2d lieutenant and served a short time, when he was appointed quartermaster, and remained as such until his discharge, and returned home, remaining one month, when the company was re-organized as Company K, 20th O. V. I., for three years, or during the war. In this company he was commissioned as 1st lieutenant, and served as such until February, 1863, when he resigned his oflice and returned home on account of physical disability. In the spring of 1864 he went out as captain of Company K, 134th O. N. G., and served four months, or until the expiration of the time of enlistment of the company. Soon after his return home from the army he engaged in the mercantile business at Montra, which he conducted about three years, and then sold his store and retired from the business. While engaged in business at Montra he was licensed as a local minister of the M. E. Church, and traveled one year as a supply on the circuit under the directions of the elder. In 1867 he began to prepare for the ministry, and in September, 1860, he was admitted into the conference and ordained as a minister of the M. E. Church, and has since that time been engaged in his professional labors. He is now located in Hardin, where.he is engaged on the third year of his pastoral labors on the Hardin circuit. He has been twice married first, on the 4th day of February, 1846, to Miss Julia A. Bachar, of Fairfleld County, Ohio, by whom he had two children, one of which is now living, viz., Margaret I. His companion died in 1849. On the 21st day of November, 1850, he married Miss Catharine Etherington. By this union he has three children, viz., William A., Clara J., and Anna.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883