Clemens
Riehle immigrated to the United States in 1854 and after brief
stops in Buffalo, NY and Cincinnati he settled in Perintown Ohio,
about 20 miles east of Cincinnati. Mr. Samuel Perin, of
Perintown, offered to give him free rent providing he would open a
shoe shop in Perintown. He accepted the offer and went in business
for himself in April 1859. He continued in the shoe business
for 30 years.
Not
long after his move to Perintown he purchased a house and farm that
remains in the Riehle Family to this day. Clemens raised
seven children in this home with two wives. He married
Cornelia Mohr on February 19, 1860 and he married Philomena
Weidemer in or about 1869. Clemens died February
21, 1927 in Milford, Ohio, but his son Francis Albert raised 11
children in the house in Perintown. His second youngest
child, Charlie, lived at the house most of his life, until his
death in 1997 at age 90. Today the house is lovingly cared
for by Charlie's wife, Margaret (Marge) who welcomed us into her
home in the summer of 2005.
Furniture
to match the house
