Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Diehl, H. Grant
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H. GRANT DIEHL, one of the leading citizens of Colerain 
township, Pa., his native place, where he is now serving as 
Justice of the Peace, is a worthy representative of an old 
and honored family, being a descendant several generations 
removed of Samuel Diehl, a pioneer of Bedford County.  He 
was born December 26, 1863, a son of Samuel S. and Emily 
(Diehl) Diehl.
  Samuel S. Diehl, a son of the late Jonathan Diehl, has 
been a lifelong resident of this part of Pennsylvania, and 
during his active career has been prominently identified 
with the best interests of Bedford County.  His home is now 
in Bedford township.  He has served his fellow-townsmen in 
many positions of trust, and as County Commissioner of 
Bedford County he did excellent work.  His wife, whose 
maiden name was Emily Diehl, passed to the life immortal 
March 10, 1872.
  H. Grant Diehl obtained his early education in the public 
schools; and after taking a course of study at a normal 
school in Bedford, Pa., and at Schellsburg, Pa., he was for 
five terms a teacher in the townships of Harrison, Colerain, 
and Bedford.  When ready to settle to some permanent 
occupation, he located himself in Colerain, where he owns 
and occupies a farm of eighty-four acres, forty-four having 
been inherited and forty acquired by purchase.  On the later 
he has placed his farm buildings.  Here he is successfully 
carrying on farming after the most approved scientific 
methods.  He is a strong Democrat in his political 
affiliations, and has filled public offices of importance, 
having been Township Clerk and Auditor, and also Justice of 
the Peace, being at the present time in his second term.  He 
is now serving his fifth year as secretary of the Friend's 
Cove Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, an organization 
that has been of inestimable value to the agriculturalists 
of this region.  Fraternally, he is a member of the P.O.S. 
of A.
  Mr. Diehl and Miss Laura Diehl, a daughter of Henry Diehl, 
of Colerain township, were married on June 19, 1890; and 
they are the parents of three children, namely: Austin S., 
Ethel S., and Carrie V.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa