James W.H. Reisinger

biography

Colonel Reisinger was born at Beaver, Pennsylvania, January 19th, 1833, and came to Venango county in 1844, where he lived on a farm until 1851. He received a primary education in the common schools, entered Allegheny College in 1852, and graduated in 1856. Alter leaving college he taught in the public schools of Evansville, until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, when he enlisted in Company H, 150th regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, served as Captain from September 4th. 1862, to March 10th, 1864, and received a commission as Major of the 25th regiment United States colored troops, and soon afterward became lieutenant colonel, in which post he served until December, 1865, when he was mustered out with the regiment. After the close of the war he engaged in the publication of the Bee, Tionesta, Forest county, Pennsylvania. In 1869 he removed to Franklin, Venango county, and published the Venango Citizen. Removing to Meadville in 1870, he has been editing and publishing the Meadville Daily and Weekly Republican since. They are among the leading newspapers of the county.

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-80, page 253-254