BIO: Christian Dietz, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLVII.

                             HAMPDEN TOWNSHIP.

480  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  CHRISTIAN DIETZ, farmer, P. O. Good Hope, is the younger son of 
Daniel and Lydia (Stoner) Dietz, and was born in York County, Penn., on 
the same farm where his father and grandfather were born.  He is fifty-
three years of age, having been born in October, 1832.  His parents 
came to this county in 1837, buying the well-known "Carothers' farm," 
which had been owned by that family for 150 years.  Here Christian 
lived until the spring of 1851, when his father turned the farm over to 
his elder son David in the then new township of Hampden.  Here 
Christian lived until his marriage, in 1856, with Elizabeth, daughter 
of John Wilt of East Pennsborough Township, he then removed to a farm 
bought by his father, in 1852, from Anderson and William Orr.  Here he 
stayed until the spring of 1882, when he removed to a new house which 
he built at the lower end of his farm, to which he had added fifty 
acres bought from James Orr, and this, with the original Orr Farm of 
160 acres, which he got from his father's estate, and ninety-five acres 
which he purchased from Susan Sierer, gives him a fine farm of 305 
acres in one tract, making him about the largest land-owner in Hampden 
Township, and one of its heaviest taxpayers.  He has five children:  
George W., married to Lillie C., daughter of Eli C. Shuman (he farms 
his father's upper farm); Alice J., wedded to Frederick Mumma, grocer, 
of Mechanicsburg; Rebecca E., Milton C., and Katie N., who are 
unmarried and live at home.  Mr. Dietz has held several township 
offices, and has been school director for eighteen years, assessor two 
terms, county auditor, and held several minor offices.  He has worthily 
discharged the duties of every position, and should his fellow-citizens 
call him to a still higher post of honor, which seems probable, his 
life and character, which are open and known to all men, are a 
guarantee that he will faithfully discharge the trust committed to his 
care.