BIO:  Samuel C. 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

SAMUEL C. DILLER was born in Cumberland County, Penn., in 1849, and is a son of 
Samuel and Catherine (Richwine) Diller, of Cumberland County.  His grandfather, 
Diller, was a farmer in Cumberland County, and owned about 200 acres of land.  
The father was a weaver by trade but also followed farming, owning about 600 
acres of improved land, which were divided into seven farms, also 100 acres of 
mountain land.  He came to Franklin Township in 1867, where he remained until he 
died, in 1873, at the age of sixty-five years.  He had eleven children:  Mary A., 
Sarah A., Catherine A., Julia A., Simon, Joseph (deceased), Susannah A. 
(deceased), Cyrus, Priscilla, S. C. and Rose A.  Samuel C. Diller assisted his 
father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when he took one of his 
father’s farms and began farming for himself.  In 1877 he sold his farm to John 
Arnold, and in the spring of 1878 went to Michigan with his family, where he 
remained ten months engaged in laboring.  In the following spring he returned to 
Franklin Township, where he purchased sixty-two acres of improved land and 
commenced farming again, working sometimes at the carpenter trade.  Like his 
ancestors, Mr. Diller is a musician and sometimes teaches music.  He was married, 
in 1873, to Susan Bender, daughter of Joshua Bender, of Snyder County, Penn.