Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — DR. JOHN H. RERICK DEAD. [ARTICLE]

DR. JOHN H. RERICK DEAD.

Gallant War Veteran Well Known in Political and Newspaper Life. , Lagrange, Ind., Jan. 23. —Dr. John H. Rerick, age eighty-one, is dead here. He was born in Tippeqanoe county, and came to Lagrange in 1859. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted as a surgeon in the Forty-fourth regiment and served more than four years. For gallantry on several battlefields he was made a commissioned officer, and was the last of the original staff of officers. Dr. Rerick joined the Republican party when It was organized, and

was a Republican leader in northern Indiana fifty years. He served eight years as county clerk, and was postmaster during the Harrison administration. t He had published the Lagrange Standard since 1867, and was one of the'founders and for many years was president of Island Park assembly, at- Rome City, the first Chautauqua in the west. Hi was a Methodist and an Odd Fellow more than fifty years, and these organizations will conduct the funeral Tuesday.