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DILLMAN FAMILY. ELIAS DIHLMANN was born in 1686 in the town of Nussdorf, Wurtemberg, Germany. In the early part of the eighteenth century he moved to Illingen, Germany-two miles from Nussdorf. He died there in 1756. Elias Dihlmann or Diehlmann had a son Jacob Dillmann, who in turn had three sons, namely, Jacob Dillmann, Jr., Andrew Dillmann, and Elias Dill- mann, Jr. These sons changed the spelling of the name to Dillmann and after their emigration to America they dropped the final "n."
In 1725 Jacob Dillman, Jr., and Andrew, his brother, came to the English colonies in America, Jacob settling in Virginia and Andrew in Western Penn- sylvania, in what is now Adams county. Louis M. Dillman, of New York City (who is president of the American Book Company), and his son Louis C. Dillman, of Chicago ( secretary of the Dillman Family Association of the United States), are descended from Jacob Dillman, Jr.
On Sept. 24, 1737. the sons of Elias Dillman, Jr., Hans George Dillman
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and Heinrich Jacob Dillman, landed in Philadelphia, having crossed the Atlantic in the ship "Virginius Grace." On a September day fourteen years later (Sept. 16, 1751) Hans George Dillman, Jr., sailed on the ship "Brothers," presumably with his widowed mother and younger brother Anthony. They settled in Heidelberg township, Berks Co., Pa. Having heard of the successes of his relatives in the Colonies, George Frederick Dillman set sail in the ship "Neptune" Oct. 7, 1755, to try his fortunes in the New World. He settled in what is now known as Northumberland county, Pa. Hans George Dillman, Jr., eventually settled in what is now known as Perry county, Pa. His great- great-grandson is Prof. A. D. T. Dillman, of Antis township, Blair Co., Penn- sylvania.
The Dillmans were represented in the Fatherland by Dr. Theodore Dill- mann, of Berlin, Germany; and by Dr. Christian Frederick August Dillmann (a German Orientalist), who was born at Illingen, Wurtemberg, April 25, 1823. He became a Protestant Theologian and Orientalist, and an authority on the Ethiopian Language and Literature and Old Testament Criticism. He was professor at the Berlin University from 1869 until the time of his death, in 1894.
The branch of the family known to Schuylkill countians are descended from Anthony Dillman, who came to this country with his widowed mother in 1751. He married Susanna Kalbach, of Berks county, and had the following children : Anthony Dillman, Jr., Susanna Dillman (married a Mr. Ball), Sabilla Dillman (married a Mr. Koch, of Schuylkill Haven), Peter Dillman (married Susanna Krause), Barbara Dillman (married a Mr. Saltzer, of Lykens), and Adam Dillman (married Katherine Krause). Not much is known of Anthony Dillman, Sr., except that he was an ardent patriot, aiding the Continental soldiers when they passed his home on their march to relieve the distress of those who had suffered during the Wyoming massacre. He was a farmer and a trapper.
Peter Dillman was the fourth child of Anthony Dillman. He was born in Heidelberg township, Berks county, in 1781, and followed the occupations of farming, lumbering, fishing and trapping. He married Susanna Krause in 1807, and they had seventeen children, eight of whom grew to maturity. We have mention of : Margaret Dillman (married Jacob Kruger, of Ringtown), Daniel Krause Dillman (married Katherine Dunkelberger), Mary Dillman (married John Schneider, of Ashland), George Dillman (died young), James Dillman (married Agnes Brocius, of Shenandoah), Lucyanna Dillman (married thrice-Jeremiah James, James Boyle, Philip Powell), Sarah Dillman (married James Connelly, of Barry), Charles Dillman ( married Elizabeth Rice, of, Ash- land) and Peter Dillman, Jr. (married Lydia Neff, of Tamaqua).
After his marriage in 1807 Peter Dillman, Sr., and his wife came to the site where Pottsville now stands to make their home; but his wife, feeling too lonely so far from kindred and friends, persuaded her husband to sell their land to John Pott (who subsequently founded Pottsville in 1809), and they moved to Fountain Springs. The ground upon which the present State Hospital now stands was the site of the Dillman homestead. Here he reared his large family and spent his declining years, which were years of affliction. Having been struck in the eye by a piece of timber in his young manhood, his sight became impaired, so the last ten years of his life were spent in total blindness. He served his country bravely in the second war with England and received an honorable discharge. He died in 1858 at the old homestead at Vol. I-6
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Fountain Springs. His wife Susanna (Krause) Dillman was born in Chester county in 1786 and came to Berks county in 1800 with her father, George Krause. She was a woman of superior ability and attainments, noted for her straight-forward and outspoken manner-a quality inherited by many of her descendants. Her advantages for educational and social culture were limited in her day by the condition of the country when she was a girl, born with the generation immediately succeeding the Revolutionary war in America, when the land was impoverished in resource, and no schools had been established. If it was a period of poverty then, it was one of energy and heroism, when men and women were struggling into prosperity. She had the ordinary acquire- ments of a rudimentary education, but was especially gifted in needle and embroidery work-accomplishments of high order in that day. She lived to the age of ninety-three years, dying in November, 1879. Her pastor at her funeral services stated that she had been the mother of seventeen children and at the time of her death she had one hundred and seventy-two grand- children, fifty-two great-grandchildren and ten great-great-grandchildren. She is buried in the Barry Evangelical Church yard.
DANIEL KRAUSE DILLMAN, the eldest son of Peter Dillman, Sr., was born at Fountain Springs in 1809. He received his education in the district schools. Inheriting the self-reliance and fortitude of his mother, Susanna (Krause) Dillman, he early learned to work and toil, finally attaining success in the battle of life. He taught school at Fountain Springs, Wadesville and Port Carbon in their early days. When he was not employed at teaching, he followed the occupations of farming and lumbering in the thickly wooded sections of Schuylkill and Northumberland counties. In 1833 he became captain of the canalboat which plied its way between Mount Carbon and Philadelphia. It was at this time that he met Katherine Dunkelberger, as his boat passed her home on the canal. They were married in 1835, living for a while in Maiden-creek township, Berks county (at the Dunkelberger home- stead). They then took up their residence in Schuylkill county, residing at Wadesville and Port Carbon. In 1848 Daniel K. Dillman became outside foreman at the Phoenix Park colliery, and was employed there until 1859. At this time he purchased a farm at Llewellyn, where he continued to live until 1890. The last two years of his life were spent with his daughter, Catherine (Dillman) Starr. He was a tall man, strong both mentally and physically, stern-one of the old school. His motto seemed to be:
"But to him who bareth his arm to the strife,
Firm at his post in the battle of life, The victory faileth never."
He died Sept. 1, 1892, and is buried at Clouser's Church, by the side of his wife. Mrs. Katherine (Dunkelberger) Dillman was born in Maiden-creek township, Berks county, in 1814, and died in 1888. She was endowed with superior mental abilities. In her day the advantages for educational and social culture were limited, but she was fond of reading on all subjects. She was an adept with the needle and embroidery-accomplishments of high order in her time. Her tenderness and self-sacrificing spirit were beautiful, and all the motherly instincts of a noble woman were developed in her character. She was a member of the Reformed Church. There were ten children born to Daniel K. and Katherine (Dunkelberger) Dillman, six girls and four boys, as follows: Amelia J. Dillman ( 1835-1914) married John Hubler, of Barry,
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Schuylkill county; Daniel Dunkelberger Dillman ( 1836-1872), a lawyer of Pottsville, married Isabel Catherine Bowman; Susanna Dillman (1840-1908) married David Johnathan Evans, of Gilberton, formerly of Minersville, Pa., and Ithaca, N. Y .; William Dillman ( 1842-1912), of New Brunswick, N. J., married Marietta Purnell; Henry Clay Dillman ( 1844), of Parkersburg, W. Va., married Mrs. Mary O'Donnell; Catherine Magdelina Dillman (1846), of Llewellyn, Pa., married Jacob Starr; Emma Mary Dillman (1848-1849) died of croup; Elizabeth Anna Dillman ( 1851) married Henry Christ, of Pine Grove; John Dillman ( 1855-1856) died of croup at the village of Phoenix Park ; Mary Anne Dillman ( 1857) married Joseph Boden, mine superintendent at Donaldson, and later moved to Shamokin.
DANIEL D. DILLMAN, the eldest son of Daniel K. Dillman and Katherine (Dunkelberger) Dillman, was born in Maiden-creek township, east of Mohrs- ville, Berks Co., Pa., Dec. 26, 1836. When six years old he attended his father's school at Fountain Springs, and later went to the schools at Wadesville and Phoenix Park, also taught by his father. At the age of twelve he entered the company store at Phoenix Park (Schuylkill county). During the winter months he taught school, studying at night in the store room loft where he slept. He entered the Poughkeepsie Law School in 1859 and graduated with merit. After leaving college he taught school, and was admitted to practice at the Schuylkill county bar in 1860. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he responded to the call of Abraham Lincoln for the first 75,000 troops to serve for three months. He enlisted April 22, 1861, becoming a private in Company H under Capt. Charlemagne Tower, of the 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. James Nagle commanding. Some of the companies of this regiment were the first troops at the capital, immediately entering into active and strenuous service. At the expiration of the term of service the regiment was mustered out, on July 22, 1861. The regiment was complimented by the brigadier general for their excellent and gallant service. He also served in the 2d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, in 1862, and the 27th Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteer Militia, in 1863, during the Emergency. In 1864 he sailed around Cape Horn, South America, and located in San Francisco, practicing law there and in the vicinity for several years. Returning to Schuylkill county, he located in Mahanoy City in 1867, and in 1868 he went to Pottsville and formed the law firm of Dillman and Seltzer. He also engaged in the coal business near Llewellyn in 1871.
Daniel D. Dillman was a charter member of Camp No. 72, P. O. S. of A., of Mahanoy City, and also a charter member of Camp No. 36, P. O. S. of A., of Pottsville. He also was a charter member of the Humane Fire Company and Severn Post, G. A. R., of Mahanoy City ; was a member of Pulaski Lodge, F. & A. M., Pottsville, and General Grant Lodge, I. O. O. F., Mahanoy City. He was an attendant of the Episcopal Church, although leaning towards Universalism. In politics he was a Republican, and the year he died he was chairman of the Republican county committee.
On March 4, 1869, Daniel D. Dillman was united in marriage to Miss Isabel C. Bowman, daughter of Peter Bowman, coal operator of Mahanoy City. Three children were born to them: Daniel Walter Dillman, civil engineer, of Altoona, Pa .; Robert John Dillman (died 1876) ; Anna Augusta Dillman (Mrs. T. L. Thomas), of Mahanoy City. Daniel D. Dillman died Sept. 7, 1872, of smallpox contracted during the epidemic of that year, and is buried in the Charles Baber Cemetery at Pottsville.
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D. WALTER DILLMAN, eldest son of Daniel D. Dillman, is a civil and mining engineer, located at Altoona, Pa. He was born at Pottsville Dec. 9, 1869. After his father's death he came with his mother to Mahanoy City, where he received his education in the public schools, graduating in the class of 1887. He entered the Lehigh Valley engineer corps at Lost Creek, and afterwards was located at Mauch Chunk, Sayre ( Pa.), Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y. He then went with the Harbison-Walker Company, of Lock Haven, afterwards locating at Altoona. He is borough engineer for Lilly, Cresson, Mount Union and Gallitzin, Pa. He was the surveyor that constructed the sanatorium for tubercular patients at Cresson, Pa. Fraternally he belongs to Mahanoy City Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M., and Camp No. 124, P. O. S. of A., Mahanoy City.
AUGUSTA A. DILLMAN, only daughter of Daniel D. Dillman, Esq., was born in Pottsville, but with the exception of the first three months of her life has lived in Mahanoy City. She graduated from the Mahanoy City high school in the class of 1801, and from the West Chester State Normal School in the class of 1893, having taught one year before going to Normal School. She taught for a number of years in the grammar grades of Mahanoy City. She is a Chautauqua graduate of the class of 1898, having sixteen Chautauqua seals attached to her diploma. She is a member of the board of directors of the Visiting Nurses' Association of Mahanoy City, a member of the Geographic Society at Washington, D. C., first treasurer of the Equal Franchise Party of Mahanoy City, member of Liberty Bell Chapter, Daughters of the Revolution, at Philadelphia, also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Washington, D. C., and is historian for the Dillman, Bowman and Thomas families. She has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada. having been in twenty-seven States of the Union. On Feb. 21, 1901, she was united in marriage to Thomas Lewis Thomas, a wholesale grocer of Mahanoy City. Three daughters and one son were born to them, two of whom survive. Muriel Isabel and Vivian Mary Thomas; both are members of the Junior Daughters of the Revolution.
AMELIA J. DILLMAN, eldest daughter of Daniel K. Dillman, was born Oct. 30, 1835, in Maiden-creek township, Berks county. She married John Hubler May 29, 1852. They were among the first settlers at Barry (near Gordon), owned 132 acres of farming land there, and built a fine homestead on it. She was a charter member of the Barry Evangelical Church and was of a faithful, kind, cheerful and generous nature. Her children are: Howard H. Hubler, of Gordon ; Esther A. Hubler ( 1854-1880), who married John Weiss ; Daniel O. Hubler ( 1856-1882) ; Emma M. Hubler, who married Oliver I. Frey ; Sil- vester J. Hubler ( 1861-1909) ; William Ellsworth Hubler ( 1863-1863) ; Edgar D. Hubler ; Arthur S. Hubler ( 1867-1871) ; Uphama A. Hubler, who married William P. Eifert ; Charles W. Hubler, of Barry ; Laura A. Hubler, married to William Hunter ; and Allen E. Hubler, of Barry.
Howard H. Hubler was born in Branch township, Schuylkill county, Nov. 8, 1852. He attended the schools in Butler township, and started to work as errand boy with his father on the train at the age of twelve. He was promoted to brakeman in 1872, and then to conductor in 1875. On June 4, 1878, he was promoted to the position of fireman, and on Jan. 23, 1882, he became engineer, which position he has held ever since. He is a member of F. & A. M. Lodge No. 294, of Ashland, Griscom Chapter, R. A. M., and Prince of Peace Com- mandery, No. 39, of Ashland, Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Reading. and the A. A. S. R., of Williamsport; a member of the Royal Arcanum of
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Ashland; of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Tamaqua; of the P. & R. R. Association, and a member of the P. and R. R. Veteran Association of Philadelphia. He also belongs to the Knights of the Golden Eagle at Gordon and is their treasurer. Howard H. Hubler is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Gordon, being its secretary, and is also a trustee. He has been a school director four terms and is secretary of that organization. On Dec. 25, 1880, he married Selina J. Klinger, of Deep Creek Valley, and they have had three children : Annie M. Hubler (1881-1885), Arthur Alvin Hubler and Mabel R. Hubler.
Arthur A. Hubler graduated from the Gordon high school, spent one year at the Millersville State Normal School, graduated from the Franklin and Marshall Preparatory School, and took a four-year course at Pennsylvania State College, graduating with honors in the class of 1908. He married Amny Duncan, of Gordon. He is a member of the F. & A. M. Lodge of Ashland. Arthur Hubler resides at Atlantic City, N. J., being instructor in electrical engineering in the high school of that city.
Mabel R. Hubler is a graduate of the Gordon high school and at present is taking a course in McCann's Business College at Mahanoy City.
Esther A. Hubler ( 1854-1880) married John Weiss and had three children : Emma Weiss (married Wilmor Quay, of Spring City and has two children, Lemar and Lavern Quay), George Weiss and Clara Weiss. Esther A. Hub- ler's death was caused by her clothing becoming ignited while attending to home duties.
Daniel O. Hubler was born in Butler township Feb. 2, 1856. He belonged to Camp No. 62, P. O. S. of A., at Gordon. He was employed at railroading. Contracting typhoid-pneumonia, he died March 17, 1882.
Emma M. Hubler married Oliver I. Frey, of Cressona, and has had five chil- dren: Wilford Frey (1893-1893), Laura Frey (a graduate of the Cressona high school), Mary Augusta Frey, Charles Walter Frey and Edith Frey.
Silvester John Hubler ( 1861-1909) was the third son of Amelia J. (Dill- man) Hubler. By trade he was a locomotive fireman. He belonged to the Independent Order of Locomotive Firemen, at Delano, Pa., the Independent Mechanics of Reading, P. & R. Relief Association, and was a charter member of the P. O. S. of A. Camp of Lavelle, Schuylkill county. He married Mary E. Clus, who lives at Reading. His children are: Esther Hubler ( 1889-1891), Raymond Hubler (married Bessie Young and has two children, Marion and Leroy Hubler), and Alma E. Hubler, of Reading.
Edgar D. Hubler, fifth son of Amelia J. (Dillman) Hubler, is a merchant at Ashland. He attended the Island School at Barry, Pa., the public schools at Gordon, Pa., the academies at Gratztown and New Berlin, Pa. He married Clara E. Yost, and has one child, Florence Hubler.
Uphama A. Hubler, the ninth child of Amelia J. (Dillman) Hubler, married W. P. Eifert, of Cressona. She has had fourteen children: Norman Eifert (married Caroline Schaffer, and has one child, Aven Russel Eifert), Grace Amelia Eifert (married Robert Brinich), Gertrude Eifert (married Raymond Ramsey, and has one child, Lemar Raymond Ramsey), Ruth Eifert, Carrie Eifert, Henry Eifert, Albert Eifert, Lulu Eifert, Arthur Eifert ( 1903-1903), Ralph Eifert ( 1905-1906), Chester Eifert, Emanuel Eifert, Leroy Eifert and Edwin Enerd Eifert.
Charles Walter Hubler, the sixth son of Amelia J. (Dillman) Hubler, is a farmer at Barry, living at the old homestead. He belongs to the following
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lodges at Lavelle: The Improved Order of Redmen, No. 297; I. O. O. F., No. 972, and the Degree of Pocahontas, No. 172.
Laura G. Hubler, the youngest daughter of Amelia J. (Dillman) Hubler, married William Hunter and lives at the old homestead at Barry. She is a member of the P. O. S. of A. Camp No. 55 of Lavelle. She has six children : Minna Hunter, Ruth Hunter, Cora Hunter, Mary Hunter, Allen Hunter and Charles Walter Hunter.
Allen E. Hubler lives at the other farmhouse on the Hubler estate. He is a member of the Improved Order of Redmen, Lodge No. 297, at Lavelle. He married Louisa Mader, and has four children: Lemar, Esther, John, and Arthur Hubler.
SUSANNA DILLMAN, second daughter of Daniel K. Dillman, was born Jan. 28, 1840, in Maiden-creek township, Berks county. She was educated in the district schools of Wadesville and Phoenix Park. She was an adept at embroidery and crocheting-accomplishments very highly valued in her day. In November, 1858, she married David J. Evans, of Minersville, formerly of Ithaca, N. Y. They resided at Llewellyn, Phoenix Park, York Tunnel, William Penn, Gilberton and Scranton. She was the most affectionate of mothers. Possessed of much natural refinement, she found pleasure in the society of her children and kindred. She died July 20, 1908, at her home in Scranton, and is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Frackville by the side of her husband. She had ten children: Daniel Dillman Evans, Eleanor Evans (married George H. Williams), Minnie Evans (married George Ludwig, Jr.), William Evans ( 1865-1870), Harriet Evans (1867-1870), B. Franklin Evans (1870-1907), D. Edgar Evans, Walter W. Evans, Carrie Evans (married Jacob Kuhlman), and Augusta Dillman Evans.
Daniel Dillman Evans was born at Llewellyn in 1859. He was educated in the schools of Llewellyn and Phoenix Park and at Port Carbon Normal School. He was engineer at the Shenandoah colliery for two years and for eight years at the Gilberton colliery. In 1892 he became engineer at the P. & R. colliery at Maple Hill, which position he has occupied ever since-twenty-three years. Fraternally Daniel D. Evans belongs to Shenandoah Lodge, No. 511, F. & A. M. At present he resides at Mahanoy City. In 1887 he married Hannah Fox, daughter of William and Mary (Yoder) Fox, of Gilberton. They have three children : Dr. Harriet Evans, Florence Evans (Mrs. Paul L. R. Snyder) and Walter D. Evans.
Dr. Harriet Evans was born at Gilberton and graduated from the Mahanoy township schools in the class of 1903. The same year she entered Brown Preparatory College, graduating in 1904. In 1908 she graduated from the Woman's Medical College. Having spent one year in the hospital of the Woman's Medical College, Dr. Evans located in Mahanoy City in 1910, and has been very successful in her chosen profession. She belongs to the Alpha Omega Delta (medical fraternity), organized the Puritan Chapter of the Eastern Star at Mahanoy City, and is also the first vice president of the Equal Franchise Club of Mahanoy City, organized in 1915. She is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution.
Florence Evans graduated from the Shenandoah high school in the class of 1910 and completed one year at the Woman's Medical College at Philadel- phia. She is a gifted pianist. In October, 1914, she married Paul L. R. Snyder, of Hagerstown, Md. (formerly of Mahanoy City), and they have one child, Roger William Snyder, born Nov. 26, 1915.
Walter D. Evans is a high school student at Mahanoy City.
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Eleanor Evans, eldest daughter of Susanna (Dillman) Evans, received her education in the schools of Llewellyn and Phoenix Park. She early learned to be self-reliant, becoming proficient in needlework and embroidery. She is an attendant of the Evangelical Church. In 1893 she married George H. Wil- liams, a merchant of Shenandoah. She now resides in Frackville. She had two daughters, both deceased; Viola, born in 1894, lived to the age of four years.
Minnie Evans, second daughter of Susanna (Dillman) Evans, received her education in the schools of Llewellyn and Gilberton. She taught school for six years at Gilberton and one term of night school at Mahanoy City, and also taught in the suburbs of Scranton. In 1911 she married George Ludwig, Jr., of Scranton, who is now engaged in farming.
B. Franklin Evans, third son of Susanna (Dillman) Evans, was born at Phoenix Park, Schuylkill Co., Pa., in February, 1870. He received his educa- tion in the Gilberton schools. He early manifested a disposition towards mechanics and became very proficient in that line. He worked at Gilberton for some years, and then entered the American Locomotive Works at Scranton, Pa., where he attained a high place in his chosen trade. His untimely death cut off a promising career. Having contracted typhoid fever, he died in April, 1907, and is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Frackville, Pa. Fraternally he was member of Camp No. 284, P. O. S. of A., at Gilberton, and the I. O. R. M. of Scranton. He was school director at Gilberton for a number of years.
D. Edgar Evans, of Gilberton, was born at Glen Carbon, Schuylkill county, in July, 1873, the fourth son of Susanna (Dillman) Evans. He attended the schools of Gilberton. At present he is employed as machinist at Boston Run colliery, near Gilberton. In 1899 he married Mary Fellows, of Gilberton, and has four children, Myrl, Ruth, Wilbur and Morgan Evans.
Walter Webster Evans, the fifth son of Susanna (Dillman) Evans, was born at New Philadelphia in 1875. He attended school at Gilberton. Going to Scranton he worked for a time in the steel mills, and afterwards took up farming as his chosen occupation. At present he is living in Indiana.
Carrie Evans, the ninth child of Susanna (Dillman) Evans, was born and educated at Gilberton. She is a musician of some ability. In 1902 she married Jacob Kuhlman, of Scranton, and has had two daughters, Eleanor Kuhlman (1902-1907) and Anna S. Kuhlman (born 1908).
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