BIO:  John DIEHL, Littlestown, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 421-422

JOHN DIEHL, farmer, Littlestown, was born December 16, 1809, in Codorus 
Township, York Co., Penn.  His great-grandfather came from Germany and settled 
in York County, where his son, George, was born, carried on farming, and died, 
aged about forty years.  George Diehl married Eve Livingston (who died in York 
County when about eighty years of age), and had the following named children:  
George, David, John, Charles, Jacob, Adam, Mrs. Sheeley, Mrs. Diehl and Ebert.  
Of these, Adam Diehl, who was born in York County, Penn., died in Woodsboro, 
Md., aged thirty years; he, too, was a farmer; married a Miss Crebbs, who died 
in York County, Penn., aged about forty, and has seven children:  George, 
Jessie, John, Ephraim, Adam, Elizabeth and Leah.  Of these, John was educated in 
York County, where he was reared on the old homestead; married Miss Lydia, 
daughter of Frederick Ramer, and who died October 18, 1883, aged seventy-one 
years, the mother of eight children:  Mrs. Sarah J. Frock, Mrs. Lydia Sheeley, 
Henry and Howard (living), John (who died, aged eighteen years), Eliza Ann (who 
died, aged one year and a half), Mrs. Alice R. Weikert (who died, aged twenty 
years; had one daughter – Emma - now the wife of Horace Crouse) and Eliza (who 
died, aged fifteen years).  Our subject moved to Union Township, this county, 
after marriage, and still has a farm of 201 acres of good land there, and as a 
farmer was successful.  In the spring of 1865 he came to Littlestown, this 
county, where he now resides.  He is a member of the Lutheran Church.  In 
politics is a  Democrat.  Since Mr. John Diehl moved to Littlestown he was 
engaged in the grain business from 1866 to 1867 (about eighteen months), and, in 
partnership with other men, owned the foundry at Littlestown about seven years, 
when he sold out his interest.