COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES removed to Rush township, Northum berland county, where he became a prominent citizen and took a warm interest m the affairs of the county. H e was a mcmlier of the I’ resbylerian Church and one of the active promoters of the Mahoning G iu rch at Danville, which he assisted in building. For years he scr-c<l as one of the elders of the congregation. During the latter years o f his life he made hi.s home in Danville, where he died in 1862, Ilis w ife having preceded him in 1854. Both are interred in the Fair%icw cemetery. When quite young M r. Shults married Elizabeih .Vfaustellar, and thcir home was blessed with eleven children; Matilda, wife o f Abraham Hendrickson; facob, who mar ried Elizabeth Shultz; Phifip, who married Kate D cw ald; Katherine, w ife o f Jesse M cnsch; Janies, who married Elizabeth S h ire s: .Mary, w ife o f Jam es W oodside; .falieriy, who married Caroline H eim; D.inicl, who married M argaret Ephlin; Mahala. wife o f .Amos V astinc; and Peter ami William, who died in early youth. J O S E P H H A M M E T T R IN A R D . agent of the Adam s Exp ress Company and proprietor of the Catawissa Five and Ten Cent Store, is a n.itive o f Catawissa, bom in the town Oct. >5, 1858, and is a member o f a well known fam ily o f pioneers o f this State. Solomon Dyer Rinard, his father, was a native o f Pennsylvania, having been bom in what is now Shamokin Ja n . 27, 1827. H is father, Conrad Rinard, was o f German de scent and a farm er by occupation. In 1830, with his w ife and six children, he crossed the .Alleghenies in one of the old “ prairie schoon ers” and settled in Armstrong county, Pa. T liree years later Jacob Dyer, who had married M ary M. Rinard, a sister o f Conrad, brought the little boy back to Catawissa to join his older sister, M ary D. Rinard. who had already lived with them. Jacob D )cr at that time w as a merchant on the com er now occupied by H . R . Baldy’s store. lu t c r he p u rch as^ the “ Catawissa House,” and here Solomon D yer Rinard grew to manhood, receiving only the meager education of the public schools o f that d a y; but being o f a studious, observing disposition, he became widely known for his general knowledge of the details o f everyday life, and his advice, so often asked, w as al ways freely given. Solomon D yer Rinard I^ m c d the trade o f tinsmith with Isaac Linvillc, and later bought out his employer, car rying on the business in the place now occu
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pied by the Baldy homestead, near the com er o f Mam and Third streets. In i8 6 i he bought the com er and built the store and workshop (now occupied by his son) into which he moved his rapidly increasing business o f man ufacturing and selling tinware, stoves, etc., selling the product o f a number o f men throughout Columbia county. In 1872 he sold the business to A . B. Cleaver, remodeled the building and opened a general store which he conducted until a few years before his death, when age and poor health compelled him to relinquish active work. M r. Kinard was a director of the Catawissa Deposit Bank, Catawissa's first banking house, and one of the o t^ n iz e rs of the F irst National Bank in 18 9 1, M n g its vice president until, on the death o f J . H . Vastine. he became president, an office he ffiled until his death. M r. Rinard w as a Republican from the birth of the party. H e held Ihe postinastership o f Catawissa, Pa., under Lincoln, John son and Grant, and, allvavs progressive, he was the first to get the daily papers through from Pliiladelphia on the day tncy were is sued. the papers arriving at 3.30 p . m .— a n event in those days. H e w as a charter mem ber of S t M atthew's E . L . G m rch, an elder and trustee, superintendent of the Sunday school for many years, and for thirty-one years church treasurer. Fraternally he was a member of the local Masonic bodies, blue lodge and chapter. M r. Rinard was married first to Elizabeth Frederick, who cited in 1854. and by her had one child, M ary Elizabeth, now the widow o f Carl M . von D orstcr; she has one child, Her bert Rinard von Dorstcr. who married F lo r ence Faus Beishline, and they arc the parents o f one child, Herbert RinarcT von Dorstcr 2d. F o r his second w ife Mr. Rin.ard married A n gelina Harlcnstine. o f Chester countv, who died in 18S4. B y her he had three children, Joscph Hammett, .Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Emm a, who died in young womanhood. Solomon D yer Rinard w'as a self-made man in the fullest sense, a man of great probity, a good citizen, and h.ad a very high sense of the responsibilities o f life. He died N ov. 7, 19 10 , at the ripe age o f nearly eighty-four years. Joscph Hammett Rinard attended Ihe pub lic schools and entered his father's store as clerk, also assisting him in the express busi ness. H e continued to clerk for his father until the latter retired, and then assumed the entire charge of the store, conducting it un til 1909, when he opened a 5 and 10 cent store on Main street, the third o f its kind in
