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One or. the oldest residents of this
community was taken by death at the most unusual age
of 93 years on Monday. Clemence Riehle, well
known to the community as one of the pioneer
residents, is being mourned by a large family and
many friends and neighbors. The deceased lived at
Perintown for 66 years.
Mr. Riehle was born near Strassburg,
Germany. He came to the United States with his older
brother Martin, who died at the age of 91 in Buffalo,
N.Y. Leaving his home near Strassburg on Nov. 15,
1853, he traveled through Paris on his way to Harve,
France, from which port he set sail for the United
States on a three mast sailing vessel known as the
Winthrope.
After an adventurous trip in which
the Winthrope was battered badly by sever storms, the
vessel reached New York on Jan. l8, 1854. Mr. Riehle
and his brother worked in Troy, N.Y. for a short time
after which they went to Buffalo and worked in a
tannery and later in a shoe shop until October l854.
Mr. Riehle then left his brother in
Buffalo and came to Cincinnati where he worked at the
shoe trade at 39 Pearl Street and at 6 Walnut Street
for two years.
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