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Note: of Erie Co., Ohio (Peeke 1916, 754 & 855), reports their father, John, "was a child at the time when the family home was established on the pioneer farm in Summit Co., where he was reared to adult age and where his educational advantages were necessarily limited to those afforded in the primitive schools of the locality. At the age of 18 years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade and incidentally also that of cabinetmaker. After completion of a thorough apprenticeship that had made him a skilled artisan in these lines, he worked as a journeyman and contractor in his home county for several years and then engaged in the manufacturing of furniture in an independant way, all work having been done by hand and being of the most substantial order. In his little establishment he also manufactured by hand the coffins that were used in the community and that were usually made to order after deaths had occurred. The first bureau which he made was turned out for use in his own home, the same being solid cherry wood and being still retained in the possession of the family-- unimpaired by the ravages of time and standing in evidence of the honest and thorough work that characterized such manufacturing in the early days. After remaining at Doylestown for a number of years John Reighley returned to the old homestead farm, which had been devised tohim by his father, and there he continued to reside until his death which occured in 1856 He had four brothers :George, William, Benjamin, and Peter, the family circle having no daughters, and all of the brothers except Benjamin married and reared children. Peter died in Indiana; George at Chilton, Marshall County, Wisconsin, Benjamin in Norton Township, Summit County, Ohio: and it is supposed that William was killed in California to which state he made his way at the time of the gold excitement and in which he had accumulated an appreciable fortune.."
Note: The biographical sketches of sons, Benjamin and Peter Reighley, in the History
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