Charles Reinke - Nebraska
Charles ‘Carl’ Reinke
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Carnovia:Karniow:Jagerndorf:Krnov(CZ)
Charles 'Carl' Reinke was born in Germany near Berlin (in Carnova (now: ??Krnov, Cz Republic??) in the Province of Posen) on May 15, 1828. He acquired an education at a Lutheran school. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1854 and settled in Illinois. He worked there for two years in a stone quarry until moving to Omaha, Nebraska Territory. In Omaha he joined the Columbus Town Company. Carl and twelve other men journeyed west from Omaha up the Platte River Valley intent on establishing a town along the route of the future Transcontinental Railway. On May 29, 1856 they founded Columbus, Nebraska near the merging of the Platte and Loup Rivers. Soon afterward he and two other founders went north to the Shell Creek area. There he took a preemption land claim of 160 acres. Later he bought another 80 acres.