Philip Diehl
Philip Diehl, the proprietor of a retail meat establishment at Osborn, where he has been engaged in business since 1911, was born in this county and has lived here the greater part of his life, although he was for some time a resident of Dayton and of the neighboring county of Clark. He was born in Fairfield on November 11, 1885, son of Jacob and Louise Diehl, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in this county, both now living at Yellow Springs.
Jacob Diehl was seventeen years of age when he came to this country and proceeded on out to Ohio, locating at Fairfield, where he presently began working for Peter Long in the butcher trade. For twelve years he was thus engaged and he then started in business for himself, opening a butcher shop at Beattytown. A year later he gave up butchering and became engaged in farming and was thus engaged until 1906, in which year he moved to Yellow Springs and there resumed his former vocation as a butcher and is still thus engaged in that town. To him and his wife have been born eight children, of whom Philip and Jacob are the only ones living at Osborn.
Philip Diehl received his schooling in the schools of Greene and Clark counties and after leaving school became engaged as a farm hand and was thus employed until his father moved to Yellow Springs in 1906, when he became an assistant to his father in the latter's butcher shop. Not long afterward he went to Springfield and was there engaged in the packing houses for several years, at the end of which time he went to Dayton. A year later he returned to Yellow Springs and was there engaged in the butcher business for himself for a couple of years, or until 1911, when he moved to Osborn, bought the butcher shop he is now conducting and has been thus engaged in business at that place ever since.
In 1911 Philip Diehl was united in marriage to Anna Funderburg, daughter of Lincoln Funderburg, of Bath township, and to this union has been born one child, a son, Carl. Mr. Diehl is a Republican and, fraternally, is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918