Sullivan-Centre-Lycoming County PA Archives Biographies.....DEININGER, James C. 1873 - living in 1899
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  JAMES C. DEININGER, assistant chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of the
  Commonwealth, is one of the most respected citizens of the village of Sonestown,
  Pa., and is a man of many sterling qualities. The gentleman whose name appears
  at the head of this narrative is of German origin and was born at Millheim,
  Center County, Pa., May 7, 1873, and is a son of Augustus O. and Hannah (Hoover)
  Deininger, and a grandson of Emanuel Deininger.
  
    Our subject's grandfather was born in Germany, and while a young man removed
  to the United States, settling in Philadelphia, where he remained a number of
  years, when he became a resident of Center County, Pa. While residing in his
  native country he was a teacher of languages and pursued that profession to some
  extent in this country. He was united in matrimonial bonds with Miss Ovenland
  and they became the parents of five children, who were named as follows:
  Christian F., who was a prominent minister and presided in the pulpit of the
  Evangelical Church for a period of nearly fifty years; Mary, who was the wife of
  Jacob Keen; Benjamin O., proprietor and editor of the Millheim Journal, and one
  of the trustees of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa.; Jonathan O.; and
  Augustus O. Our subject's paternal grandfather passed away at the age of nearly
  eighty years, while his grandmother died aged sixty-five years.
  
    Augustus O. Deininger, father of our subject, was born in Philadelphia, and
  when he reached manhood, as the Civil War was in progress, he enlisted in
  Company A, 148th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war.
  After peace had been restored he accepted a position in the War Department at
  Washington. D. C., in which capacity he remained about eighteen months; he then
  entered the marble business at Millheim, Center County. Pa., from which business
  ihe retired to enter the revenue service. He was joined in the bonds of wedlock
  with Hannah Hoover, and to this union a family of seven children was born.
  
    James C. Deininger, our subject, received his primary education in the public
  schools of his native town, which was later supplemented by a course in the high
  school at Hughesville, Pa. Upon leaving school he accepted a position with the
  W. & N. B. R. R., working in the freight department; later he was promoted-to
  the passenger service as baggage-master and conductor, and while working in that
  capacity made his home at Nordmont, Pa. In 1894 he severed his connection with
  the railroad company to engage with M. W. Botsford in the manufacture of cigars,
  from which business he retired a year later and removed to Sonestown, Pa. In
  1895 he accepted a clerkship in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
  and in February, 1898, he was promoted to his present position as assistant
  chief-clerk. In June, 1898, he was appointed one of the commissioners to
  represent Pennsylvania at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition,
  held at Omaha, Neb.
  
     Our subject is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 299 of Muncy, Pa., in which he
  takes much interest. Mr. Deininger holds the interests of Sullivan County much
  at heart and is held in high esteem by a large circle of acquaintances in every
  section of Sullivan County.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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