Henry Jacob Diehl

Henry Jacob Diehl

Male 1829 - 1891  (61 years)

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  • Name Henry Jacob Diehl 
    • http://mcneary.info/gen1/diehl1.htm

      "Legend has it that an itinerant sign painter was to paint the Diehl name over the entrance to the Diehl business at Paducah Kentucky, where Henry J. Diehl located for a time, and not knowing better painted Deal, and from then on, that branch of this large family has spelled their name Deal."
    Born 1 Dec 1829  Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 Nov 1891  Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • "Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri (1888)"

      p. 344:

      "The Seventy-ninth Regiment was organized in June 1863, in Scott and Mississippi Counties; Henry J. Deal was Colonel; . . . The captains were: Company A-Edwin P. Deal . . ." [Perhaps the namesake of Edwin Peter Deal, then age four.]

      pp. 969-970:

      "H. J. Deal was reared to the tanner's trade, which he learned under the direction of his father, remaining with him until he was nineteen years of age, when he (in 1849) came west. Stopping at Farmington, Iowa, he was employed as clerk in a grocery store about six months, when he went to St. Louis, where he worked at his trade about two years, as foreman for Mayor John Howe, for whom he also worked during 1853 and 1854 at Paducah, KY, where he met his wife, Melvina Walters, whom he married on March 4, 1854. In 1856 they moved to Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri where they made their home. He had purchased land at a land sale in 1854 in Mississippi County. He came to Charleston as a levee and ditch contractor, but in 1857 he took the contract for building the Cairo & Fulton Railway, which became the Iron Mountain Railroad. This was only the fourth contract granted for building railroads west of the Mississippi River, viz: Hannibal, St. Joe, Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain. He had completed twenty-seven miles of the road, and had trains running upon it, when the Civil War broke out, and he was elected from his district to fill the vacancy of Hon. R. A. Hatcher, who, with the Governor of the State, seceded and went south. He serves in that capacity one year, after which, in 1862, he was elected to the Senate from his District and served until 1868. In 1862 he was appointed, by the Governor, colonel of the Enrolled Militia of seven counties, viz: Scott, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Dunklin, Stoddard and Bollinger. He served in that capacity until the close of the war. In 1866 he took the contract for building fifty miles of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, which he completed in 1867. In 1867 he finished the old contract on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad to Poplar Bluff. In 1868, he was elected to represent Mississippi County in the U. S. Legislature for two terms. In 1881, he took the contract for building 110 miles of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, which he completed in 1882. He then turned his attention entirely to farming and stock raising, in which he was quite successful. He cultivated sixty acres of osier willow, used for basket making, from which the first basket was made February 4, 1888, and two hundred acres of catalpa trees, for posts. He had under cultivation about 2,500 acres of good land, which he mostly rented and also had about 10,000 acres of land in forest. He was brought up in the Lutheran faith, and joined that church in 1847. After marriage, H. J. & Mrs. Deal were members of the Charleston Baptist church. Late in his life, Col. Deal made several county roads, using his own means to pay the expense, receiving from the county as part pay some swamp lands. He also made several canals through the swamp lands and a great many ditches were under his supervision."

    • http://whmc.umsystem.edu/exhibits/ramsay/ramsay_mississippi.html

      "Place name: Deal Cottonwood Tree [Charleston, Mississippi County, MO]

      Description: A famous landmark near the E.P. Deal residential place on State Street in Charleston. It served as a watchtower during the Civil War when Colonel H.J. Deal gave warning of the approach of the Confederate forces. (Charleston Democrat 1937, Ida Deal)

      Source: Hamlett, Mayme L. "Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938."
    Person ID I40558  Complete
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2012 

    Father Peter Diehl,   b. 23 Apr 1802, York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Apr 1887, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Anna Maria Smyser,   b. 30 Jan 1803, York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Dec 1895, New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years) 
    Married 13 Nov 1823  York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F18043838  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Melvina Walters,   b. 18 Oct 1839,   d. 9 Mar 1892, Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Married 6 Mar 1854  Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • LDS FamilySearch
    Children 
     1. Whitcomb Luther Deal,   b. 25 Dec 1856,   d. 25 Mar 1857  (Age 0 years)
    +2. Edwin Peter Deal,   b. 19 Apr 1859, Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Dec 1945, Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     3. Jefferson A. Deal,   b. 9 Aug 1861,   d. 17 Jun 1862  (Age 0 years)
     4. George Albert Deal,   b. 28 Aug 1863,   d. 28 Nov 1863  (Age 0 years)
     5. Franky Deal,   b. 29 May 1865,   d. 13 Jan 1869  (Age 3 years)
    +6. John Daniel Deal, D.V.M.,   b. 29 Jul 1870, Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Sep 1904  (Age 34 years)
    Last Modified 12 Aug 2012 
    Family ID F18043852  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1 Dec 1829 - Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 6 Mar 1854 - Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 20 Nov 1891 - Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album

    Inside front cover: "Compliments of H.J. Deal, 1880." Apparently, this album was presented to his son, Edwin Peter Deal (1859-1945), since it was in the possession of his granddaughter:

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers

    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album

    Unidentified individual

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers

    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album

    Unidentified individual

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Photo album

    Unidentified individual

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers

    Documents
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Memories, written 1890
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Memories, written 1890

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Obituary
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Obituary

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Tribute (1 of 2)
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Tribute (1 of 2)

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Tribute (2 of 2)
    Henry Jacob Diehl (1829-1891), Tribute (2 of 2)

    Received from Carolyn Webb, Ida Bridwell Deal (1891-1973) Papers