Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Harry David Diffenderfer




Husband Harry David Diffenderfer 1

           Born: 5 Oct 1881 - Transfer, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Charles A. Diffenderfer (      -1906) 1
         Mother: Mary Elizabeth Christman (      -      ) 1





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General Notes: Husband - Harry David Diffenderfer


He was born at the home farm at Transfer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and there completed courses of public school study. He chose a profession and attended Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy until graduation, April 17, 1904. His first employer was G. B. Kline, druggist of Braddock, Pennsylvania, with whom he remained five years, going thence to Irwin, Pennsylvania, as manager of the George Sowash's drug store, and there continuing three years. He then opened a drug store at Export, Pennsylvania, under his own name, the only store of its kind in the borough. He had other interests, being interested in the Export Mining Company, operating a mine at Export, and in the Export Gas Company, whose great gas well, drilled in 1915, flowed with tremendous volume and force. That well was the largest ever drilled in the United States, and measured one hundred and ten million feet every twenty-four hours. Out of twelve wells drilled they experienced only two definitely dry holes.
Mr. Diffenderfer was a Republican in politics, served for six years or more in borough council. He was a member of Shidle Lodge, No. 601, of Irwin, Pennsylvania; Urania Chapter, No. 192, Royal Arch Masons, of Greensburgh; Kedron Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar, of Greensburg; Syria Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburgh; also Scottish Rite bodies; and a member of Emmanuel Reformed Church of Export.

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Sources


1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 350.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 351.


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