Samuel Reinke
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Publisher
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Moravian Historical Society of Nazareth
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Type
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Still image
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Format
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image/jpg
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Description
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Reinke, Samuel (1818)
Portrait of a young man from the side, black jacket, white scarve, in oval
Samuel Reinke (1791‐1875), born in Lititz, Brüderpfleger and ‐Vorsteher in Lititz (1816‐1819), married with Susanna Theodora Eyerle (1819), ordained a deacon (1819) and served in Lancaster, Philadelphia, Newport, Lititz. In 1826 Susanna Re‐inke died in Lititz and Samuel remarried with Charlotte Sophia Hüffel (1827). They served in Graceham, Lancaster, Nazareth, Bethlehem, New York, and in Lititz. He was a member of the PHC (1839‐1847) and was ordained a bishop (1858). Samuel Reinke suffered from a weak health. He died in Bethlehem.
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Text on back: "A Present from the Original to his dear Sister Augusta, March 13, 1818". There was a "Johanna Augusta Reinke" listed with the Single Sisters in Lititz for 1817.
A later pencil inscription reads: ‘Painted by Bichholz’ (surname uncertain; possibly Buchholz or Pichholz)
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Source
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Moravian Archives
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Identifier
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Annotation:
Edition:175D
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Extent
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8 1/8 x 10 1/8 " (20.5 x 27 cm)
6 1/2 x 9 " (16.5 x 22.5 cm)
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Rights Holder
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Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania
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