BIO:  Daniel 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, Spring Garden Township, Pg 188

DANIEL DIEHL, was born September 11, 1807.  His great-grandfather, John Adam Diehl, emigrated 
from Germany and took up 360 acres of land in York County, Penn., in what is now Spring Garden 
Township, paying an English agent £12 ($60) for the whole tract.  At the time the nearest mill 
was at Downington, Chester County.  He had four sons:  Peter, Daniel, George and Nicholas.  
Daniel settled in Seven Valleys, York County; George in Virginia; Peter and Nicholas in Hellam 
Township, York County, having purchased the original tract of land from the heirs, after the 
death of their father.  The grandfather of our subject, Peter Diehl, was born in Hellam 
Township, York County, and had six children:  Jacob, Nicholas, Daniel, Peter, Catherine 
(married to John Brillinger) and Elizabeth, who married Henry King.  The father of our subject, 
Jacob Diehl, married Polly Pflieger, both being natives of Hellam Township.  Our subject, 
Daniel Diehl, was married May 15, 1836, to Miss Louisa Loucks, a daughter of Casper Loucks, of 
Spring Garden Township.  Six children have been born to them:  Malinda Kauffman, Cecelia 
Witmer, Adaline, Milton (deceased), Marcellus and Nicholas.  Mr. Diehl was actively engaged in 
farming all his life, but is now passing the evening of his life retired from active labors.  
He is now seventy-seven years of age, and residing in Frystown.  His wife died several years 
ago.  Mr. Diehl owns a mill property in Spring Garden, situated upon an old site, the second 
mill being built there in 1775, and the third build by himself in 1860.  He also owns a well-
improved farm of 100 acres, which is operated by his son, Nicholas.  The family are members of 
the Lutheran Church.