BIO:  Rev. S. Diller, 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, Franklin Township, Pg 106

REV. S. DILLER is a native of Cumberland County, Penn., born in 1846, a son of 
Samuel and Catharine (Richwine) Diller, of Cumberland County.  His grandfather 
was a farmer and owned several hundred acres of land in Cumberland County.  His 
father, Samuel Diller, was also a farmer and weaver by trade; he owned 500 acres 
of good land in York County, divided into seven farms, and about 100 acres of 
mountain land.  He came to Franklin Township in 1867, and remained here until his 
death in 1873, at the age of sixty-four years.  He had eleven children:  Mary A., 
Sarah A., Catherine A., Julia A., Simon, Joseph (deceased), Susan A. (deceased), 
Cyrus, Priscilla A., S. C. and Rose A.  Subject remained on the farm in York 
County, until the age of twenty-eight years, when he went to the Lutheran 
Missionary School at Selin’s Grove, Penn.  He then began active work in the 
United Brethren ministry at the Carlisle Spring Circuit in Cumberland County, 
where he remained two years; next he went to Dover Circuit, York County, where he 
remained four years; then took Yocumtown charge for one year.  In the conference 
of 1883, he chose the local ministry.  In 1865 he married Lydia A. Morrett, 
daughter of George Morrett, of Cumberland County.  They have two children:  
George S., and Luther O.  Mr. Diller is an ardent worker in the cause of 
education, the church and Sunday-schools.  He owns several fine tracts of land 
with all the necessary improvements.