BIO: Harry Edmund DIEHL, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 973.
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  HARRY EDMUND DIEHL,* engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad pumping station in 
Chest Township, Clearfield County, Pa., belongs to one of the old settled 
families of the county.  He was born in Greenfield Township, Clearfield County, 
Pa., January 24, 1878, and is a son of Samuel and Mary (Mock) Diehl, and a 
grandson of John Diehl who was in the fourth generation of descent from Samuel 
Diehl, who came to Pennsylvania from Loudoun County, Va.  When Grandfather Diehl 
died he left ninety direct descendants.  The Diehls have an annual reunion in 
Clearfield County.
  Harry Edmund Diehl attended school until he was thirteen years of age and then 
learned the saw mill business and worked with his father in a saw mill for six 
years and afterward worked at mining and lumbering until 1906, when he became 
tank keeper in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as mentioned 
above.
  Mr. Diehl married Miss Ella Brink, who was born May 3, 1886, near Smoke Run, 
and is a daughter of George W. and Anna (Shaffer) Brink, who were born in 
Indiana County and after coming to Clearfield County settled at Irvona.  Mr. 
Brink, who is now eighty-three years of age, followed lumbering all through his 
active life.  Mr. and Mrs. Diehl have two children:  Florence, a school girl of 
nine years; and Gilbert Emmons, who is three years old.  In politics he is a 
Republican and he served one term as high constable at Irvona.  He belongs to 
the order of the Mystic Chain, also at Irvona.