Husband Edgar Brough Diehl 1
Born: 3 Mar 1865 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA 2
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Father: Jeremiah Diehl (1824-1896) 3
Mother: Sarah Brough (1825-1902) 3
Marriage: 18 Feb 1891 2
Wife Sarah Catherine Dixon 4
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Father: Gen. William Dunlop Dixon (1833- ) 5
Mother: Martha Gillan (1833-1902) 6
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1 F Sarah Martha Diehl 2
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2 M Jeremiah Dixon Diehl 2
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3 M Edgar William Diehl 2
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4 F Catherine Jeffrey Diehl 2
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General Notes: Husband - Edgar Brough Diehl
He was educated at the public schools and at the Chambersburg Academy, and he graduated with honor at Eastman's National Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1885 he went to Lemasters, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the grain, coal and lumber business. He was also ticket, freight and express agent. In 1902 he established an electric light plant, which supplied electric light to the villages of Bridgeport and Lemasters, and to the borough of Mercersburg, and the Mercersburg Academy. This was the first electric light plant in the county to be run by water. The same year he built at Markes the first concrete dam in the county. Mr. Diehl was a partner with Seth Lemaster in the Markes Milling Company, a feed mill at Markes. In 1904 Mr. Diehl, in partnership with his brother John A. Diehl, of Marion, purchased a half interest from his brother in a farm located near Brown's Mill in Antrim township. The partnership was formed for the purpose of establishing a commercial apple farm, and they came to have three thousand apple trees under cultivation. Mr. Diehl was a Democrat in politics, but had no political aspirations. He did served as a school director of Peters township, however. Fraternally he was a thirty-second degree Mason, and was one of the charter members of the Zembo Shrine at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was an elder of the St. Thomas Presbyterian Church. [BAFC, 270]
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Catherine Dixon
She acquired her education at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and St. Joseph's Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland, from which she was graduated in 1889.