BIO: HIRAM DITLOW, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 447-448
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    HIRAM DITLOW. No country in the world offers better opportunities for the
  successful carving of one's own fortunes by legitimate means than does the
  United States: Among the residents of the township of West Pennsboro,
  Cumberland county, who have taken advantage of this glorious privilege, as
  well as opportunity, and .have hewed their own way to fortune, may be
  mentioned Hiram Ditlow, whose energy and good management have been his only
  aids.
    
    George Ditlow, his father, was born in South Middleton township, and
  attended the schools of that town. Like the majority
    
    448  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  of farmer boys he was early trained to make himself useful on the homestead.
  On reaching man's estate he took up agriculture as a life occupation, and in
  1853 he located in Lower Allen township, and his death occurred there that
  same year. He married Catherine Nailor, who bore him the following children:
  William, who died in Carlisle; David, who married Maggie Forman, of Perry
  county, had two children, and died in Lower Allen; Alfred, living in
  Fayetteville, Franklin county, Pa., who married (first) a Miss Drawbaugh, of
  Milltown, Lower Allen township, who died, and he married (second) a lady from
  Fayetteville, Franklin county; Henry, who died in Lower Allen; George, who
  married a lady in West Fairview, and now lives in Lower Allen; Hiram; and
  Anna Elizabeth, who married Robert McCleaf, of Chambersburg, Pa., and has
  five children. After the death of the father, the mother married his brother,
  Henry Ditlow, by whom she had two children: Matilda Catherine, who married
  Samuel Stiteler, of York county, and has six children; and Emma Lucy, of New
  Ashland, Pa. Mrs. Ditlow died in Lower Allen in January, 1883, and Henry
  Ditlow in November, 1883.
    
    Hiram Ditlow was born in Lower Allen township in 1856, and received a
  district school education. Farming became his life work, and after his
  marriage he located on the farm where he now lives, which was known as the
  old Samuel Bear property. At first he rented it, but in 1885 he purchased it,
  and has since made extensive improvements. It contains 114 acres.
    
    In 1881 Mr. Ditlow was united in marriage with Mary Bear, daughter of John
  and Martha Bear, of West Pennsboro. Five children have blessed their union,
  namely: John B., born in 1883, is living in Harrisburg, where he is a fireman
  on the Philadelphia & Reading R. R.; Elsie M., born in 1886, is at home;
  Norman H., born in 1888, is at school; Clarence M., born in 1892, is in
  school; and Alice P., born in 1895, is in school. Both Hiram Ditlow and his
  wife are members of the Reformed Mennonite Church at Plainfield. They are
  honest upright citizens, of whom any locality might well be proud.