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DEILY FAMILY.
Frederick Deily, the first of the name in this vicinity,
lived in Bethlehem township but later moved to Salisbury
township, where he died Sept. 11, 1790, aged 81 years. His
sons were Philip, born Apr. 12, 1754, died June 22, 1843,
Daniel and George
Daniel Deily was born in 1755. In the Revolutionary
War, he enlisted Jan. 25, 1776, in the service of the United
States, in the company of Capt. Thomas Craig, attached to
the second battalion of the Penna. Line, and marched with his
battalion to Canada. He served over a year, when he was
honorably discharged. He afterwards served as militiaman
for two terms of three months each. In 1790 he lived in
Salisbury township, and about 1815 moved to Allentown, where he
died, Feb.. 12, 1825. He and his wife, Catharine,
had six children: George, Christian, Henry, Jacob,
Catharine, wife of Philip Gross, and Mary Barbara
wife of George Henry.
His son, George Deily, was born June 27,
1781, and died Nov. 21, 1870.
Joseph Deily, son of
Christian, was born in Salisbury township, Mar. 24, 1823.
Early in life he was a carpenter and worked in Salisbury, in
Hanover, and in Northampton county. Later he was a
contractor and employed a number of men. He was a deacon,
elder, and trustee of the Lutheran Church for many years and is
buried at Rittersville. He was a prominent man and served
in the capacity of school director and assessor. He died
Aug. 16, 1900, aged 77 years. His wife was Sallie
Keiper, daughter of Daniel Keiper. She was born
in the spring of 1822, and resides with her daughter, Emma
Horlacher, at Noxon, Pa. The following children were
born to them: Edwin; Eli G., who died in 1903, aged
57 years; Jesse; Hiram; Oliver; Emma, wife of Frank
Horlacher; Mary, wife of Jerome Christman who resides
in the Twelfth ward, and William.
OLIVER DEILY, a son of Joseph and Sallie Deily, and a
citizen of the Fourteenth ward, formerly East Allentown, was
born in Hanover township, Sept. 6, 1854. He learned the
trade of a carpenter from his father at the age of seventeen
years and followed it until 1882. Later he was a
pattern-maker and had charge of the carpenters for the Allentown
Iron Company for twenty-eight years. In 1905, he engaged
in the contracting business in East Allentown, where he has
resided the greater part of his life. He erected
twenty-five houses, aside from his other work, and employs from
three to seven men. He served as a trustee in St. Joseph's
Lutheran church for six years. He is connected with the P.
O. S. of A., J. O. U. A. M., and Senior Mechanics.
He married, in 1874, Emma Kline,
daughter of Enos and his wife, nee Rinker,
Kline, and their children are: George G., of
East Allentown Charles F., of East Allentown, and
Bertha, single, who was a public school teacher.
Jacob Deilywas born Sept.
15, 1789, and died May 14, 1881, aged 91 years years. He
married, Mar. 17, 1813, Mary Magdalena,daughter of
George Geissinger of Salisbury township. She was born
Oct. 9, 1794, and died Mar. 26, 1883, aged 88 years. They
lived for a time on Lehigh street, Allentown. On June 23,
1821, his father-in-law bought a 159-acre farm south of
Catasauqua, and they later removed to the farm. Mr.
Gessinger died in 1823, and by decree of the orphans' court,
the farm was awarded to Jacob Deily. They had six
children:
Sarah Deily, born June 11,
1813, died Oct. 3, 1840. She married, in September, 1830,
Rudolphus Kent, born July 4, 1803, son of Rudolphus
and Mary Kent, of Morristown, N. J. They resided at
Jenkintown. Mr. Kent was a general in the Mexican
War. Mrs. Kent died Oct. 1840. They had sons,
Ellis of Bethlehem, and Brigadier General Jacob F.
Kent, U. S. A., retired, of West Troy, N. Y.
George Deily*, born Sept. 2,
1815, at Allentown. He attended the Allentown schools and
in 1825 removed to the Deily farm with his parents.
In 1849 he bought the canal store, located in the stone house at
Race and Canal streets, Catasauqua, which he conducted until the
flood of 1862, after which he retired. At the time of his
death he owned two farm in Hanover, two in Allen, and one in
South Whitehall township. He died Nov. 17, 1902, aged 87
years, and was buried at Shoenersville. He married
Eliza, youngest daughter of General Benjamin Fogel,
and his wife, AnnaTrexler. She was born Oct. 4,
1831, and died June 18, 1905. They had two children:
George B. F. Deily, merchant and coal dealer, and Mary,
wife of Peter J. Laubach, both of Slatington.
Francis J. Deily was born at
Allentown, July 31, 1824, and died at Catasauqua, Oct. 10, 1897.
For many years he farmed the homestead and lived in the fine old
colonial home built by George Taylor, signer of the
Declaration of Independence. He married, in 1858, Sarah,
daughter of Rudolph and Sabina Dech, of Bath, and had one
daughter, Camilla E., wife of Dr. Charles E. Milson,
who has three children, Gertrude, Helen, and Ruth.
Solomon Deily, born Feb. 9, 1828, died July
24, 1872.
Matilda Deily, married, June 6, 1854, Robert J.
Yeager.
Clara, born 1835, died Mar. 19, 1902, married
Frank Medlar, and had two sons, Henry and Albert,
and one daughter, Mrs. Walter, of Bethlehem.
GEORGE DEILY, third son of
Frederick, was born in Philipsburg, N. J., in 1760. In
the War of the Revolution he served two terms of two months each
in 1777, when he marched to Whitemarsh. In 1778 he served
on the frontiers for two months, and in 1781 he again entered
the army as a volunteer and marched to Peekskill, N. Y. He
lived in Salisbury township in 1790, but died in South
Whitehall, Apr. 17, 1847, aged 87, and is buried at Jordan
Lutheran church. He was married, in 1787, by Rev. Goetz,
to Maria Elizabeth Diehl born about 1767.
Source: History of LeHigh County, Pennsylvania and
a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its Families, - VOL. 2
- Publ. Lehigh Valley Publishing County, Ltd., Allentown, Pa -
1914 - Page 220
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* See Biography of George Deily b. 1815 -
CLICK HERE
NOTE: There is a George (from Upper Saucon)
(pg. 114) listed in the Census of Pensioners for
Revolutionary Or Military with their Names, Ages, and Places of
Residence as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial
Districts Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census, published
1841.
FOR REFERENCE: There is a Philip Diley (from
Plainfield) listed on page 115.
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