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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 589-590]

    JOHN G. RIEGEL is the proprietor of a general repair shop for wagons
    and all kinds of farm machinery, Cherokee, Iowa.  He became established
    in business in 1877, manufacturing buggies and wagons, afterward
    turning his attention to repairing.  Mr. RIEGEL was born in Germany,
    July 13, 1849, and is a son of JOHN and MARGRETTE RIEGEL, who emigrated
    to the United States when JOHN G. was a child five years of age; they
    landed at Baltimore, Maryland, and thence continued their journey to
    Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.  In the spring of 1868 Mr. RIEGEL removed to
    Hardin County, Iowa, stopping in Ackley.  He had learned the black-
    smith's trade in Evans City, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and worked
    at the business two years there and then removed to Hardin County,
    Iowa; he then removed to Warrensburgh, Johnson County, Missouri, and
    afterward returned to Hardin County and located at Alden.  From this
    place he came to Cherokee, Iowa, where he has since resided.  For a
    time he worked in the shop of R. GICK, Esq., and then started in
    business for himself on a small scale.  In the wide range of country
    tributary to Cherokee there is a vast amount of plowing done, and Mr.
    RIEGEL has devoted much time to the repairing of plows, and has found
    it a profitable business.  He was married in November, 1878, to Miss
    ELLEN L. KENYON, a daughter of R. P. KENYON, Esq., of Hardin County,
    Iowa.  Mrs. RIEGEL was born in the State of Vermont, and came to the
    West when a child.  They have one daughter living, EFFIE M. C. and
    lost one son in infancy.  Mr. RIEGEL owns a good residence on Maple
    street.  In politics he is a Republican.  He has served as city marshal
    for one year.  He is a member of Speculative Lodge, No. 307, A.F. &
    A.M.; of Burning Bush Chapter, No. 90, R.A.M., and of Crusade Comman-
    dery, No. 39, K.T.  At the present time he is high priest of the
    chapter.  He is also a member of Cherokee Lodge, No. 188, I.O.O.F. He
    belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has held a
    membership since his thirteenth year, and has been a faithful worker
    in the cause of his Master.

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