BIO:  Adam Diehl, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 172

ADAM DIEHL, a farmer, and son of Adam and Catherine (Shafer) Diehl, of York County, and of 
German descent, was born near Hametown, February 25, 1821, and is the third son and sixth child 
in a family of eight children – four boys and four girls.  He was brought up on a farm, and 
attended the public schools.  Early he learned the blacksmith’s trade, and to do repairing of 
farming implements.  At the age of twenty-one he began working for his father, and worked for 
him until twenty-seven years of age.  His father died in 1848, aged sixty-two years, and his 
mother died aged eighty-two years.  November 26, 1846, he was married at York, to Annie Tyson, 
of York County, and of English descent, who died in 1882, leaving eight children, one of whom 
died.  The living are Isabel, Agnes, Harrison, Emma, Adam, Alexander and Ezra.  Mr. Diehl is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and has donated a good deal of money to all churches.  He is a 
director of the Shrewsbury Bank, and has been for eight or nine years.  The farm on which he 
resides contains about 155 acres, and has been brought to the highest point of cultivation by 
his untiring energy.