Biografie von Samuel REINKE (c.1790-?)

Profession: Portrait painter

Comments: Portrait painter in his youth, subsequently a minister and bishop of the Moravian Church. After graduating from Moravian College in Bethlehem about 1811, Reinke taught school in Bethlehem, Lancaster, and Lititz. From 1844-47 and 1853-54 he was pastor of a church in Bethlehem. He was still living in 1870 at the age of 80. Amadeus A. Reinke was his son (see entry).

Sources: G&W; Levering, History of Bethlehem, 588, 602-03, 676, 687, 709; Rice, In Memoriam: Amadeus Abraham Reinke.

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