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 1826 - 1875 (48 years)
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| Name |
Israel Smyser Diehl |
| Title |
Reverend |
| Suffix |
D.D. |
| Born |
13 Dec 1826 |
New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
4 Jan 1875 |
Beechersville, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Buried |
New Oxford Cemetery, New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Notes |
- Ida Diehl Ross (Getttsyburg PA), E.P. Deal (Charleston MO), & E.J. Deal (Cape Girardeau MO), comp., "A Sketch and Family Tree or Genealogical Table of the Diehl Family, From About 1700 to 1926":
"Methodist minister and temperance lecturer; sent by President Lincoln as Consul to Java."
Find-A-Grave:
"Rev. Dr. Israel Smyser Diehl was the son of Peter and Anna Maria (Smyser) Diehl. He was the 2nd husband of Anna T. Randall Diehl.
An Extended Death Notice, Northern Christian Advocate, February 4, 1875:
DIEHL.--Honorable and Rev. Israel S. Diehl--We announced the death of Brother Diehl when it first occurred, but there are several reasons why a more extended notice should be given of his character. In many respects he was a remarkable man. He was a native of New York State and was extensively and favorably known in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His ambition and perseverance in prosecuting his purposes were equal to any achievement. We saw him for the last time in our office, about one year ago. Brother Diehl was born in New Oxford, Adams County, New York [sic; Pennsylvania]. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1851. He soon after entered upon ministerial and missionary labors in the Methodist Episcopal Church, establishing Sabbath schools and preaching along the line of the Pennsylvania Canal, and the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. In 1853 he went to California, where he had pastoral charge of churches at Sacramento, Placerville and other places, afterwards performing the most extensive and arduous Temperance work which was ever wrought by any man. He traveled over three thousand miles by steamer, stages, upon horseback, and on foot, delivering one thousand public Temperance lectures. In the midst of this work, a terrible accident upon a Sacramento steamer disabled him for many months; but when sufficiently recovered to travel, he visited Central America, South America, Europe and Asia; was at one time Consul at Java, and aferwards United States Commissioner to Asia. May 4th, 1871, he was married to Mrs. Anna T. Randall, of New York, and they made a wedding trip to Europe, traveling through England, Wales, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Prussia, Holland and Belgium. Upon returning to this country he resumed the work upon which he had been principally engaged for the last three or four years, lecturing upon Oriental and Bible lands. Early in the winter of 1873 he contracted the disease which terminated with his death, lecturing for the last time for the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington, in April of that year. He left a large amount of manuscript matter, with the request that his wife should prepare it for publication. The funeral was attended at his father's house at New Oxford, and he was buried in the cemetery of that place, on Thursday, Rev. Mr. Barnitz, of York, a former schoolmate of the deceased, officiating at the funeral services. Mr. Diehl leaves an estate of about $2O,OOO, which, by will, is bequeathed to Mrs. Diehl and his relatives, excepting $l,OOO which go to benevolent societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, viz: Church Extension $2OO, Education $2OO, Freedmen's Aid $2OO, Sunday School $2OO, Women's Foreign Mission Society $1OO, and Dickinson College $1OO."
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| Person ID |
I40556 |
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| Last Modified |
29 Sep 2012 |
| Father |
Peter Diehl, b. 23 Apr 1802, York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. 13 Apr 1887, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (Age 84 years) |
| Mother |
Anna Maria Smyser, b. 30 Jan 1803, York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. 2 Dec 1895, New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (Age 92 years) |
| Married |
13 Nov 1823 |
York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Family ID |
F18043838 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Anna T. Fitch, b. Mar 1833, Ontario County, New York, USA , d. 29 Nov 1909, New York City, New York, USA (Age ~ 76 years) |
| Married |
4 May 1871 |
| Last Modified |
11 Aug 2012 |
| Family ID |
F18043850 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Born - 13 Dec 1826 - New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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 | Died - 4 Jan 1875 - Beechersville, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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 | Buried - - New Oxford Cemetery, New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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| Documents
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 | Israel Smyser Diehl (1826-1875), Temperance Movement
P.T. Winskill, "The Temperance Movement and Its Workers," (London: Blackie & Son, 1891), v. II, p. 275. |
 | Israel Smyser Diehl (1826-1875), President Lincoln's recommendation to William H. Seward, Secretary of State
Abraham Lincoln, "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)," v. IV. |
 | Israel Smyser Diehl (1826-1875), Gift to Smithsonian Institution
"Annual Report of the Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution," (Washington, DC, 1889), p. 290. |
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