A photograph taken about 1935 of the Edward Dietrich home in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Seated in front is Edward Dietrich (1874-1948).
Standing behind him are an unknown woman and Jennie [Keiper] Dietrich (1876-1977), wife of Edward.
Seated in background to left are two unknown women, partially hidden by the tree.
The home was located on a large farm that was cut out from a tract of land originally called Walnut Bottom and conveyed to Peter Hoffman by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1796. In 1875, is appears on the 1875 map of Lykens Township as the 102 acre farm of William Hawk and John Hoover Sr.
Edward Dietrich, a miner from Lykens, Dauphin County, purchased 47 acres of this property on 5 October 1908 and moved there with his wife and five children. Two months later another child was born, Marlin Dietrich, and in subsequent years four more children. The first child to leave the farm was the oldest, William E. Dietrich, who married Helen Mae Hoffman, also of Specktown, in 1915. Two of the children born on this farm were killed in an independent mine accident in 1939, and by 1942, Edward Dietrich, suffering badly from miners asthma and no longer able to maintain the farm, sold the property to Lincoln O. Leffler and moved with Jennie to Gratz, where he died in 1948.
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