BIO: David 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.

  DAVID DIETZ, farmer, P. O. Shiremanstown, is a native of York County, 
Penn., born in 1826, son of Daniel and Lydia (Stoner) Dietz.  His 
grandfather was George Dietz.  His father and his grandfather were born 
on the same farm, making two generations born on the same property.  In 
1837, when David was eleven years of age, his parents removed to East 
Pennsborough Township, this county, buying the place known as the 
"Carothers' farm," which has been in the possession of the Carothers 
family for one hundred years.  Here the father, Daniel Deitz, died in 
1860, aged sixty years; his widow died in 1866.  David worked on his 
father's farm until his marriage, in 1850, with Caroline, daughter of 
Christian Sheely, of Hampden Township.  A year later his father gave 
the management of the farm to him, and he lived there until 1869, when 
he bought the place on which he now resides, in Hampden Township, about 
one mile north of Shiremanstown.  He, however, still owns the old 
homestead, which is farmed by his son, Daniel.  David Dietz has had 
nine children, two of whom are deceased.  Daniel is the eldest living, 
and is married to Susan, daughter of William Mechling, and carries on 
his father's farm; Simon, his second son, is married to Barbara, 
daughter of Jacob Eberly, and carries on farming.  Three daughters are 
married:  Mary Ellen, wife of John H. Smith, of Mechanicsburg, Penn.; 
Annetta, wife of Jonas C. Rupp, of Monroe Township, and Carrie M., who 
married Frank S. Hertzler, of Lower Allen Township; the two younger 
daughters are at home.  Mr. Dietz was elected county commissioner in 
1869, serving his 

  *See also borough of Shiremanstown, page 456.

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term of three years to the great satisfaction of his fellow-citizens.  
He has been school director also for many years, the last three as 
secretary of the board.  He has also been assessor several times, 
besides filling several minor offices.  In every position to which he 
has been called he has discharged its duties with credit to himself and 
satisfaction of his constituents.  He and his wife are prominent 
members of St. John's Lutheran Church.  David Dietz is universally 
esteemed by all who know him, and bears a well-deserved reputation as a 
man of upright character and the most unblemished integrity.