From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.

JAMES RINE, proprietor of the Rine House, is second son of Joshua Rine,
of Frederick county, Maryland, born 1796, a well-to-do farmer.  James was
born in 1823, and brought up on his father's farm, he married Mary, only
daughter of John Wesley Appleby, of Harrison county, W.Va., by whom he has
had five children.  James left his father's home in 1852, and took an ad-
joining farm of 110 acres, which he cultivated successfully until until
1861.  He then removed  to Short Creek, Ohio county, W.Va., on to another
farm of 250 acres.  He was there sixteen years, and left in October, 1877,
coming to Wheeling, where he succeeded Edward Christman in the conduct of
the present Rine House, 1044 and 1046 Market street, formerly known as the
Christman House.  He has there about thirty-two rooms at his disposal, keeps
a few boarders and runs a very comfortable $1 per day house, which receives
considerable transient custom.  In connection with these is a capital stock
yard for cattle and horses, it being the only one in that end of town.  There
is a standard scale to weigh stock, and stable accomodation for some seventy
horses.  Mr. Rine is an excellent host, and most indefatigable in his
attentions to his guests.