David Stacks, I found some information about Col. R.S. Reinhardt. He spent his summers in Blowing Rock and died in 1925. He was a cotton magnate from Lincolnton.The history of North Carolina honors itself when it pays a tribute to the memory of Col. Robert Smith Reinhardt, who lived in Lincoln County, N. C. during his entire life; who rose to a commanding position in connection with the cotton manufacturing industry of the South, and who was very liberal, loyal and influential as a citizen, and whose character was marked by all those worthy and gracious qualities that tend to inspire popular confidence and esteem. In his native County, Col. Reinhardt was the moving force in the development and upbuilding of one of the really great industrial enterprises of the fair Southland, and until his death, he continued as President of the Elm Grove Cotton Mills at Lincolnton, N. C. Col. Reinhardt received good educational advantages, and prior to his moving to Lincolnton from Rehobeth, where he was reared, he conducted for a number of years a large and prosperous mercantile business at Iron Station, where he also served as Agent for the Seaboard Air Line Railway. In 1889, he and his friend, Steve Smith, purchased the Phifer Cotton Mill at Lincointon, N. C., which became, under their progressive management, one of the leading cotton mills of the South, which was incorporated in 1890, and became the Elm Grove President. of this mill till his death, when his son, Robert Steven Reinhardt,became President. In 1897, Colt Reinhardt was one of the organizers of the Southern Cotton Spinners Association, which, in 1904, was merged with the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, of which Col. Reinhardt was unanimously elected President in 1905. He became one of Lincoln Countys largest real estate owners, and was Vice-President of the Lincoln County National Bank. He was a true and loyal man in all the relations of life and his noble, generous nature gained for him the affectionate regard of all with whom he came in contact. In social life, he was a veritable prince; in generous and unassuming hospitality, no household surpassed that over which he graciously presided. The notice of his death appeared in the Gastonia Daily Gazette on Sept. 11, 1925 and reads as follows: Mr. Robert S. Reinhardt, one if the most prominent and best known men in this section of North Carolina, died suddenly at his home in Lincolnton last night from heart trouble. Mr. Reinhardt had spent the greater part of the summer in Blowing Rock. He is survived by his wife who was Miss Laura Pegram, a sister of Mrs. John O. Rankin, of Gastonia, and three children, R. S. Reinhardt, Jr., Mesdames Daisy McDonald and George Brown, of Lincolnton. Mr. Reinhardt was one of the most successful and best known textile executives in the South. He was a former president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, a past potentate of Oasis Temple, Shriners, and many time a delegate to the Imperial Council. Funeral and interment will take place at 3 oclock Saturday afternoon at Lincolnton. Mrs. Reinhardts health is very frail present.
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