{geni:about_me} Herman Reif was born in Wessely, Hodonin District, and the birth was [http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=241&zaz...&reproId=3885928 recorded] in Uherský Ostroh, a little to the north-west in Moravia (Zlin Region, modern Czech Republic; also known as Ungarische Ostra or Uherské Hradiště). Official Naming and Circumcision (beschneidungs) took place at Synagogue Wessely; Samuel Reif was involved in that ceremony. Could be the [http://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Reif/6000000002765714960 '''Samuel Reif'''] who was born in Uherský Ostroh in 1832 and had a grain business there.

On June 12, 1888, in Stark County, Ohio, a Herman Reif, age 25, and Lizzie Houpt, age "past 18," were [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11837...=M94Q-2YM:n810147985 '''married''']. [https://archive.org/details/historyofstarkco00perr Stark County, Ohio] contains Canton, and is just south of Cleveland in eastern Ohio. The couple's first son (Bernard) was born in 1889 in Canton.

In [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12329...=M94B-2WN:n351909823 '''1900'''] census for Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ED 738, Philadelphia Ward 29 (taken June 2, 1900):
* ''[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M372-CQ1 '''Household'''] Gender Age Birthplace''
* Head Herman Reif M 37 (b. May 1863) Austria. Years married: 12 (1888)
* Wife Lizzie Reif F 31 Pennsylvania. Years married: 12 (1888)
* Son Benard Reif M 11 Pennsylvania (it was Canton, Ohio)
* Son Joseph Reif M 10 (b. Nov. 1890, per census page) Pennsylvania
* Daughter Laddie (=Lottie) Reif F 8 Pennsylvania
* Son [http://www.geni.com/people/Adolf-Reif/6000000024390903944 '''Adolph Reif'''] M 5 (b. Jan. 26, 1895, Philadelphia) Pennsylvania.
* Daughter Josephine Reif F 4 Pennsylvania
* { + daughter [http://www.geni.com/people/Helen-Reif/6000000024389915762 '''Helen Reif'''] F b. October 26, 1900, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}

In [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MG7F-N7M '''1910'''] census for Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Ward 45, Enumeration District 1149:
* ''Household Gender Age Birthplace''
* Head Herman Reif M 40 Austria; Immigration Year 1885
* Wife Elizabeth Reif F 40 Pennsylvania
* Daughter Lottie Reif F 17 Pennsylvania
* Son Adolph Reif M 15 Pennsylvania
* Daughter Josephine Reif F 13 Pennsylvania
* Daughter Ellen Reif F 9 Pennsylvania

In [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNMK-MRY '''1920'''] census for Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Ward 23, Enumeration District 673:
* ''Household Gender Age Birthplace''
* Head Sherman Reif M 58 Austria; Immigration Year 1881
* Wife Elizabeth Reif F 50 Pennsylvania
* Son Bernard M Reif M 31 Pennsylvania
* Son Adolph L Reif M 25 Pennsylvania
* Daughter Lottie Reif F 27 Pennsylvania
* Daughter Josephine Reif F 23 Pennsylvania
* Daughter Ellen C Reif F 19 Pennsylvania

A Hermann Reif, age 64 (b. 1863 and naturalized in Pennsylvania about 1890 (actually it was [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2501...=M93Y-94L:n436754668 1899]) [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2175...M94K-KR8:n1996673779 entered] New York Harbor on Sept. 20, 1927, returning from a trip abroad and sailing from Bremen, Germany. (This entry is not in Ellis Island records.) Also [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-2158...=M9W1-ZYW:n186524398 entered] at Philadelphia, sailing on the ''Graf Waldersee'' from Hamburg, in August 1911 (age 48), in Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1883-1945.

Actual immigration of the young Herman Reif is viewable only in a passport application dated 1911, stating he was b. May 16, 1863 in Vienna (?) and immigrated to the U.S. in July 1883 on the ''Donau'' out of Bremen, Germany (see in MEDIA). This arrival date is too early to be recorded in Ellis Island, which opened in 1892.

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Is '''Edward Joseph Reif''', b. Nov. 18, 1890 in Philadelphia; residing Kings County, NY (Brooklyn) in 1917's [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2652...=M9W1-HJM:n312656960 WW I Draft Registration]related to, or the same person as, Joseph Reif b. 1890 (whose Profile is not viewable)?

REIF in [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12044...=M991-NCR:n761855181 Philadelphia, Penna. Marriages]