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Bob Reinhart, Inventor of Captain Crunch, Dies at Age 84

by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Nov 7, 2008 | Personal

Robert Rountree Reinhart was born July 30, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois and started working at Quaker Oats at the age of 17 to escape the great depression. After returning from World War II he went back work maintaining Quaker equipment. But his blue collar was not to...