YUBA COUNTY Biographies
FREDERICK T. REISCHE
Well-known and popular among the most progressive ranchers of Meridian, Frederick T. Reische works industriously and lives contentedly two miles to the north of that town. He was born in Brown County, Ill., on August 9, 1864, the son of Francis Louis and Louisa (Smith) Reische, both natives of Prussia, and both representing the best element in the German Fatherland. The father was a blacksmith by trade, and married in his native country; and soon afterward he and his wife migrated to the United States and made their way to Quincy, Ill., where for twenty years he toiled at the gleaming forge. Then he took up farming in Brown County; and there he passed away at the age of seventy. Mrs. Reische had died some time before, in her sixty-first year. They had a family of five boys and four girls. John is in Illinois. Samuel is at Meridian. Louisa, now Mrs. Hill, lives at West Butte. James is in Illinois. Melvina is deceased. Richmond is also in Illinois, as are Mary, the next-born, and Minnie, the youngest. The eighth in the order of birth is Frederick T., of this review.
Frederick T. Reische attended the Illinois schools, and when of age started out for himself, coming to California in 1885. For seven years he worked for his brother, Samuel Reische; and then, in 1897, he bought twenty acres on the Sacramento River, a part of the famous J. K. Woods place, two and one-half miles north of Meridian. About 1911 they added 100 acres to their holding; and now they have a dairy, alfalfa and grain farm. Mr. Reische never loses an opportunity to “boost” the locality in which he lives and prospers. He is public-spirited, performing his duty as a citizen, and endeavoring to vote for the best man and the most important, approved measures, regardless of party behest.
Mr. Reische was married at Meridian, on September 29, 1896, to Miss Mattie J. Mitchell, a native of Colusa, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Mitchell. The mother, who was a noble woman, passed away when Mattie was a baby. Her father was a Methodist minister at Meridian for years; and he closed a very useful and honorable career at the age of sixty-six. There were six children in the Mitchell family: Bert, Lou, Fearn, Clara, Mattie, now Mrs. Reische, and Minnie, now deceased. Mattie Mitchell attended the Meridian schools. Mr. and Mrs. Reische have had seven children: Chester A., now at Meridian, and Charles, Lucille, Gertrude, Glenn, Bernice and Grace. Mr. Reische is an Odd Fellow, a member of the lodge at Meridian.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 964
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