JOHN DEIBELE, manufacturer and dealer in lumber and hardware, is a native of Germany. In 1853, he became a citizen of the United States, settling in Adrian, Mich. In 1855, he came to Kendallvillem where he has been connected with the business interests ever since. He operated a saw-mill several years, subsequently learning the carpenter's trade, which occupied his attention for about sixteen years. In 1873, he started his present business, upon a small scale, and has, by judicious management and good financiering established a business which takes rank among the leading industries of Noble County. He is a wholesale and retail dealer in lumber, laths, shingles, hardware, paints, oils, etc., and manufacturer of sash, doors, blinds, etc., running extensive planing and saw-mills, and employing in his establishment from twelve to eighteen men. Mr. Deibele is a fair type of a "self-made man." Beginning life in a strange country, he has, in a comparatively few years, estblished a splendid business through pluck, industry and honorable business dealings. He has served upon the City Council, and takes interest in all movements of progress. He was united in marriage with Miss Anna Wingarth, in 1861. She died in 1873, leaving four children -- Augustus, Amelia, Kate and Louisa. In 1875, he married a second wife, Miss Rosa Roop; by her he had two children -- Lydia and John. Goodspeed, Weston A, Richard Collins, Thomas R. Marshall, W. L. Matthews; Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical; Chicago, F. A. Battey & Co., 1882, p. 300. |
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