Henry C. Deible

GEDCOM Note

Taken from 'Jefferson County,
Pennsylvania - Her Pioneers and People',
Vol. 2, by W.J. McKnight, published in
1917 by J.H. Beers & Company in
Chicago, page 209.

HENRY C. DEIBLE has been a resident of Reynoldsville for somewhat
more than forty years and has long held secure status as one of the representative
business men and honored and valued citizens of this important borough of
Jefferson county. He has shown the best type of civic loyalty and liberality and
has been called upon to serve in various positions of public trust. For the past
several years Mr. Deible has been a member of the board of education of
Reynoldsville, he served four years as president of the borough council, and on
the 5th of February, 1915, as a stalwart in the local camp of the Democratic
party, he became postmaster at Reynoldsville, of which position he had
since continued the efficient and popular incumbent.

Henry C. Deible was born in Warren county, Pa., in the year 1852,
and is a son of Jacob and Magdalena (Peters) Deible, both of whom were born
in the district of Alsace-Lorraine, France, which was wrested from France
in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871. Jacob Deible was reared and educated in
his native land and arrived in the United States on the 1st of May, 1847. He
established his home in Warren county, Pa., where he devoted the remainder of
his active career to farming and where his industry and good management
brought him a goodly measure of independence and prosperity, the while
both he and his wife had at all times the confidence and esteem of all who knew
them. These sterling pioneers continued to maintain their home in Warren county
until their death, the father having passed away at the age of eighty-two and
the mother at the age of eighty-four years. Of their nine children only five
attained to years of maturity: Emeline, John, Salome, Jacob and Henry C. The
parents were devoted communicants of the Lutheran Church and their lives were
lived in harmony with the Christian faith which they thus professed.

Henry C. Deible gained his early education in the schools of his native
country and continued to assist his father in the work of the home farm until he
had attained to the age of sixteen years, when he went to the village of Ridgway,
Elk county, and entered upon a practical apprenticeship to the trade of
wagonmaker, in which he became a skilled artisan and finally engaged in
business for himself at Ridgway. There he had a wagon shop for a few years,
and on the 1st of April, 1875, as a young man of about twenty-three years, he
came to Jefferson county and engaged in the work of his trade in an independent
way. During the long intervening years he has continued his well equipped
wagon and carriage shop at Reynoldsville, and his skill and effective
service have retained to him a large patronage. He gives a general
supervision to his wagon shop, but the major part of his time and attention is
accorded to his official duties as postmaster, his administration having
proved able and uniformly acceptable.

As a Democrat it may be stated that he has been influential in the party's
councils in Jefferson county. He and his family are communicants of the
Lutheran Church, and in the Masonic fraternity he is past master of John M.
Read Lodge, No. 536, F.&A.M., at Reynoldsville, besides being affiliated
with Jefferson Chapter, No. 226, Royal Arch Masons, at Brookville, and a
member of the commandery of Knights Templar at Ridgway, Elk county. He is
a stockholder in the First National Bank of Reynoldsville and a member of its
board of directors.

In the year 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Deible to Josephine
Loree, who likewise was born in Warren county, and in conclusion of this review
is given brief record concerning their children: Gertrude is the wife of Dr.
Lloyd L. Means, who is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Reynoldsville,
and they have two children, Alton and Josephine. Eugene, who holds a clerical
position in the First National Bank of Reynoldsville, married Bertha Bowser
and they have one child, Henry. Lucile is the wife of Walter Simpson of
Punxsutawney, and they have one daughter, Mary. Herman, who has the
active management of the wagon business established by his father many
years ago, married Mary Bryan and their two children are Lloyd and Charles.