BIO: Henry J. DIEM, 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, pages 735 & 736.
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  HENRY J. DIEM, farmer and ex-county commissioner, is one of the representative 
men of Bell Township, where his farm and lumber interests have been important 
for many years.  He was born May 7, 1856, in Brady Township, Clearfield County, 
and is a son of Henry and Louisa (Stegner) Diem.
  Henry Diem was born January 15, 1815, in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany.  In 1846, 
with his own family and two older sisters, he came to Pennsylvania and located 
on wild land in Brady Township, Clearfield County.  He cleared and developed his 
land and resided on the same until 1878, when he moved to the farm his son Henry 
J. Diem had purchased, in Bell Township, where his death occurred July 24, 1885.  
In every relation of life he was an honest, upright and worthy man.  In Germany 
he married Louisa Stegner, who was born September 22, 1813, and died March 28, 
1875.  Of their seven children there are three survivors:  Henry J.; Louisa, who 
is the wife of J. M. Le Barr, a machinist, residing at Clearfield; and David D., 
who is a farmer residing in Bell Township.
  Henry J. Diem had but indifferent school advantages but he made the most of 
his opportunities and is a well informed man of excellent judgment, and has 
served acceptably in numerous important public offices, including those of 
township assessor, auditor, school director and supervisor and in 1900 was 
elected county commissioner.  He is the only ex-county official residing in this 
section.  In politics he is a Democrat.  In his youth, until he was eighteen 
years of age, he worked for his father assisting him in the clearing of the 
farm, and when about twenty-one years old he purchased his present farm and 
subsequently cleared it.  He has a valuable and well improved property.  More or 
less he has devoted his entire mature life to farming and lumbering.
  Mr. Diem was married on October 9, 1879, to Miss Keturah M. Long, who was born 
January 29, 1863, in Pike Township, Clearfield County, Pa., a daughter of Philip 
A. and Elizabeth C. (Owens) Long.  The father of Mrs. Diem came to Clearfield 
County with his parents when five years old and was reared at Pine Grove.  His 
death occurred in 1907, at the age of seventy-two years.  He married Elizabeth 
C. Owens, a daughter of John and Margery (Caldwell) Owens.  Mrs. Long died 
January 27, 1875.  Mrs. Diem has two sisters:  Nevada F., who is the wife of 
William A. Miller, of Glen Richey, Pa., and Sarah Alice, who is the wife of A. 
Snaars, of DuBois, Pa.
  Mr. and Mrs. Diem have had five children born to them, namely:  Stella, who 
was born July 23, 1880, resides at home; Newton L., who was born January 18, 
1882, is now manager of the West Branch Store at Barnesboro, Pa., married Cornie 
E. Haag, and they have one son, Albert E.; Vada A., who was born August 12, 
1883, married J. L. Fryer, residing at Jersey Shore, Pa., and they have two 
children - Alvin L. and Alfred D.; Nona S., who was born February 11, 1886, is a 
widow and lives at Jersey Shore and has a son, Theodore M.; and Harry M., who 
was born July 15, 1894, who resides at home.  Mrs. Diem is a member of the 
Evangelical church and is interested in mission work, being a member of the 
Ladies Aid Society.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Diem are members of the Grange, and he 
belongs also to Minkel Lodge, No. 753, Odd Fellows, at Troutville.