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he engaged in business iii that city and
for mam years was among the most re-
spected citizens there, engaged in the
manufacture of pool and billiard tables.
lie married (first) Marie Antoinette El
lenberger, who was horn in New Ro-
chelle, New York, and they were the par-
ents of two suns: Walter Frederick, born
January 21, 1880, now a resident of IVta-
luma. California; Karl Augustus, of ex-
tended mention below. The mother of
this family died February 6, 1896, and
Charles E. Reiche married (second) in
1908, Marion Bailey. He is now retired
from active business, and makes his home
in Hartford.
The elementary education of Karl A.
Reiche was obtained in the "Old South"
School of Hartford, and at the Hartford
Public High School, from which he graduated
in 1904. Subsequently he pursued
a course at Trinity College in the same
city, graduating with the degree of D. L.
in [908. The same year he engaged in
substitute teaching at the South School,
and it was soon apparent that he had
chosen his life's work wisely, being es-
pecially fitted by training and natural
talent for that profession. In 1910 he was
an instructor in the Henry Dwight School
of Hartford, teaching the seventh grade,
and the following year was associated
with the staff of the New Park Avenue
School, instructor in the ninth grade.
Again he was a member of the teaching
force of the South School in 1911-12, hav-
ing charge of one of the ninth grades of
that school, and the same year, in recogni-
tion of his ability, Mr. Reiche was ap-
pointed assistant to the superintendent of
the district, and he continued to hold this
position for one year.
The city of Bristol had never had a
trained superintendent in charge of their
school work previous to 1913, and in that
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year Mr. Reiche was appointed tO the of-
fice, continuing to the present time, being
now 1
[919)
ill his seventh year of servi
During these years many new and im-
portant changes have been brought about
under his management, and he has been
the means of furthering many improvements
which have been of benefit to the
school children and to the general community.
It is the children of to-day who
are the men of to-morrow, and many a
successful man can attribute a large meas-
ure of his success to the right training he
received in his youth. A recognized au-
thority on many phases of school work,
Mr. Reiche is connected with several
organizations, in the work of which he
takes a leading part. He is a member of
the National Educational Association; the
New England Superintendents' Associa-
tion ; is a member of the Connecticut
State School Superintendents' Associa-
tion, serving as its acting secretary; a
member of the Connecticut School Masters'
Club, of which he is secretary and
treasurer. He possesses a rare tact for
organizing and the ability to execute his
plans, and as scout commissioner of the
Boy Scouts of Hartford, he succeeded in
interesting many of the youths and young
boys of that city. He held a similar posi-
tion with the Boy Scouts of Bristol and is
now director of the Bristol Boys' Scout
Council ;
is vice-president and a director
of the Bristol Boys' Club. During the
organization of the Bristol Chamber of
Commerce, Mr. Reiche served as its initial
acting secretary.
His social affiliations are with the Ma-
sonic order, he being a thirty-second de-
gree Mason, senior warden of Franklin
Lodge, No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons
; member of Lodge Xo. 1010, Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks ;
mem-
ber of the University Club of Hartford;