My Genealogy Hound

Dr. Edwin Rinear was born in Liberty Center, Wells county, Indiana, in 1866, son of Elias M. and Mary Jane (Hupp) Rinear. His great grandfather was a Frenchman, who came to this country with Lafayette and served in the American Revolution. His grandfather, Charles Rinear, son of the Frenchman, was born in New Jersey, and his son, father of Dr. Edwin, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. His mother was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Elias M. Rinear, the doctor’s father, was a druggist in Liberty Center, and other towns in Indiana and low lives in Bluffton. He was a soldier in the One Hundred and First Indiana infantry and for three years was “fife major.” Edwin Rinear attended the public schools of his neighborhood and later completed the teacher’s course in Holbrook Normal at Lebanon, Ohio, after which he taught for six years in the Wells county public schools. He graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1890. He practiced at Liberty center ten years, at Warren, Ind., three or four years, at Bluffton for a time, and located at Mt. Vernon in 1911. He is a member of the Mt. Vernon Society, which owes its existence to him; is secretary of the County Medical Association and is a member of the State Association. He was married in 1891 to Queen Mabel Webb, of Warren, Ind. They have no children. In politics he is a Democrat. The doctor is a musician of more than ordinary skill and an artist of no mean ability.