Kurt Siegesmund Diederich

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Kurt Siegesmund Diederich (c.1885-1913) was born in Hungary, emigrated to the United States, and later settled in Cecil County, Maryland. He attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he earned his law degree. He was the son of Kurt Diederich of Germany and Elinor Hunt, daughter of William Morris Hunt of Boston, and a nephew of Enid Hunt Slater of Washington, D.C.

Kurt and his wife, Sybil Hale (c.1890-1911), were married in Providence, Rhode Island in 1904, when she was 15 years old. Sybil was the daughter of Arthur Hale, superintendent of transportation of the B & O Railroad, and the great-granddaughter of Edward Everett Hale, the noted American author and clergyman. They had two children, a daughter, Elsa, born in 1908 in Maryland, and a son, Arthur Hale, who died in early childhood. After Sybil died of typhoid fever in London in 1911, Kurt's Aunt Enid took care of Kurt and Elsa in Washington, D. C. and at "Bowling Green," her Bar Harbor cottage.

In 1913 Kurt died of heart failure after the administration of ether before a nose operation in a Washington, D.C., hospital. Enid then provided the funds for a memorial path -"Kurt Diederich's Climb" - to be built in his honor. The carved granite step pictured here is the sixth step up the path, which is located near Sieur de Monts at the junction of the Jesup and Kane Paths at the north end of the Tarn [in Acadia National Park].

Enid died in 1928 in Paris, France. Kurt, Sybil and Enid are buried in the Hunt-Slater lot in the Milton Cemetery, Milton, Massachusetts.

Obituary, The Washington Post, 11 Dec 1913 - https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15054771/kurt_diederich_obit/

Obituary, The Boston Globe, 12 Dec 1913 - https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27284078/the_boston_globe/

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