Biography

08/28/1830 - 07/23/1913

REINHARD, Philip H., a Representative from Lebanon County; born, August 28, 1830 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pa.; attended, Lebanon Seminary (now, Evangelical Seminary); attended, Marshall College (now Mercersburg Academy); apprentice, printing trade; employed, Lebanon Courier; published, Monongahela Republican (1850-1854); edited, The Boy of ’76, Republican Party newspaper (1854-1856); published, Department Journal newspaper; appointed, division chief, United States Department of the Interior (1861-1876); lawyer; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1896; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1898); died, July 23, 1913 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.