. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. ngspeaker. At community meetings, whethereducational, political or religious, he was al-ways in demand and never disappointed hisaudience. His sources of information werethe daily and church papers and the Bible,and armed with information thus gained andhis ability to apply it to the every-day prob-lems many times elicited the admiration evenof those schooled in public speaking. He wasone of the prime movers in the organizationand maintenance of the Belleview Academy,an institution of marked influence during thetwenty-nine
. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. ngspeaker. At community meetings, whethereducational, political or religious, he was al-ways in demand and never disappointed hisaudience. His sources of information werethe daily and church papers and the Bible,and armed with information thus gained andhis ability to apply it to the every-day prob-lems many times elicited the admiration evenof those schooled in public speaking. He wasone of the prime movers in the organizationand maintenance of the Belleview Academy,an institution of marked influence during thetwenty-nine years of its existence. Manystudents who afterwards became prominent intheir chosen fields of endeavor received theirfirst incentive toward a higher education inthis school. Mr. Reitz had an unusual person-ality, which was an inspiration to the right-thinking individual and acted as a restrain-ing influence uoon those evilly disposed. Pro-fane persons seldom swore in his was a man of warm sympathies, alwaysready with counsel or advice, tempered with IONS.
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