{geni:about_me} Born Jacob Singer in Uhersky Ostroh, Feb. 14, 1839, to Ester Singer. Record is annotated with the name "Reif" but does not name Isak Reif as the baby's father. As a younger son, Isak could not marry Ester. Birth record appears in ''Czech Jewish Registers, Uhersky Ostroh Births 1830-1846'', Image #23/55.

Marriage info per genteam.at ''Index of Jewish Records of Vienna'':
* Year [March 26] 1871, Num. [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2580...=MMGD-K1P:1641627203 1197], Tempelgasse
* Last Name Reif, First Name Jakob
* Last Name Ehrenstein, First Name Elisabeth

Marriage record lists Isak Reif and Ester Reif geb. Singer as Jakob's parents.

Jacob's business (with his brother Samuel, who eventually lived in Vienna) was ''Sam. & Jac. Reif''. Offices in Vienna were at Wien II, Große Mohrengasse 3. They advertised "barley seed of the first order, from the finest original Moravian estates -- Hungary's top seed, Barley Ajani" (in a Hungarian [http://www.omgk.hu/Digitarchiv/folyoiratok/Koztelek/1897/1897_013.pdf ''agricultural journal''], Feb. 13, 1897, p. 217). They had a factory, or [http://books.google.com/books?ei=NcAZUYGTBqjqigLI1...imberg#search_anchor ''brewery''], in Himberg, just outside of Vienna, as shown on a [http://www.brauwesen-historisch.de/Oesterreichh.html list of historical breweries]f in Austria.

Jacob Reif's occupation described in 1877 birth [http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=241&zaz...&reproId=3885987 record] of his son Hermann. At the time of his daughter Martha's 1906 marriage in Vienna, she resided atI Schottenring 19, and her witness was Dr. Emanuel Reif (her uncle), not her father.

The NFP death notice appeared twice, once on [http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&a...;seite=26&zoom=2 ''Nov. 28, 1899''] and once on [http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&...seite=17&zoom=37 ''Nov. 29, 1899'']. The second version (same text), enlarged, is [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~...ob_Reif_obituary.jpg here].

Jacob is [http://cemeteries.jewishbrno.eu/cemetery/hrobovemisto/id/14372 buried] at Uherský Ostroh, Grave: 73 rada: 7 Section: 1