Brother of Dorothea Deitrick Veiock.
WELL KNOWN ENGINEER DEAD
Fred A. Deitrick, a well known Pennsylvania lines engineer, died this morning at his home, No. 600 Thirteenth avenue, New Brighton. His death was sudden and came as a great shock to his family and friends. Last June he became suddenly ill on his train and was removed to his home and since then has not been on duty, although he was able to be about town.
Friday afternoon about five o'clock he suffered a stroke of paralysis and died this morning about eight o'clock. He was one of the best engineers the road had and was always a careful, trustworthy official.
Mr. Deitrick was born in 1842 in Marion township, Beaver county, and was the youngest of the five children of Frederick and Dorothy (Plugh) Deitrick. Frederick came from Alsace, France (now Germany), to this country in 1828, located on a farm in Butler county, Pa., in 1829, but after ward moved to this county. F.A., remained on the home farm until his fifteenth year, then learned blacksmithing, which he followed for some time and later carried on a boot and shoe business in Pittsburg for three years.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred Twenty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and during a nine months' service participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Returning from the army in 1862, he commenced railroading in Allegheny City and had been an engineer for twenty-two years.
He married in 1867, Louisa, the daughter of John McKnight, and several children blessed their union; Florence, now Mrs. Harry Calhoon; Robert, deceased; Mary, Frederick, an attorney of Cambridge, Mass; Edith, Lulu and Ethel, at home. Mr. Deitrick was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the United Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In politics he was a Democrat.
Beaver Daily Times, Saturday, August 22, 1908, Page 1
WELL KNOWN ENGINEER DEAD
Fred A. Deitrick, a well known Pennsylvania lines engineer, died this morning at his home, No. 600 Thirteenth avenue, New Brighton. His death was sudden and came as a great shock to his family and friends. Last June he became suddenly ill on his train and was removed to his home and since then has not been on duty, although he was able to be about town.
Friday afternoon about five o'clock he suffered a stroke of paralysis and died this morning about eight o'clock. He was one of the best engineers the road had and was always a careful, trustworthy official.
Mr. Deitrick was born in 1842 in Marion township, Beaver county, and was the youngest of the five children of Frederick and Dorothy (Plugh) Deitrick. Frederick came from Alsace, France (now Germany), to this country in 1828, located on a farm in Butler county, Pa., in 1829, but after ward moved to this county. F.A., remained on the home farm until his fifteenth year, then learned blacksmithing, which he followed for some time and later carried on a boot and shoe business in Pittsburg for three years.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred Twenty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and during a nine months' service participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Returning from the army in 1862, he commenced railroading in Allegheny City and had been an engineer for twenty-two years.
He married in 1867, Louisa, the daughter of John McKnight, and several children blessed their union; Florence, now Mrs. Harry Calhoon; Robert, deceased; Mary, Frederick, an attorney of Cambridge, Mass; Edith, Lulu and Ethel, at home. Mr. Deitrick was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the United Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In politics he was a Democrat.
Beaver Daily Times, Saturday, August 22, 1908, Page 1
Brother of Dorothea Deitrick Veiock.
WELL KNOWN ENGINEER DEAD
Fred A. Deitrick, a well known Pennsylvania lines engineer, died this morning at his home, No. 600 Thirteenth avenue, New Brighton. His death was sudden and came as a great shock to his family and friends. Last June he became suddenly ill on his train and was removed to his home and since then has not been on duty, although he was able to be about town.
Friday afternoon about five o'clock he suffered a stroke of paralysis and died this morning about eight o'clock. He was one of the best engineers the road had and was always a careful, trustworthy official.
Mr. Deitrick was born in 1842 in Marion township, Beaver county, and was the youngest of the five children of Frederick and Dorothy (Plugh) Deitrick. Frederick came from Alsace, France (now Germany), to this country in 1828, located on a farm in Butler county, Pa., in 1829, but after ward moved to this county. F.A., remained on the home farm until his fifteenth year, then learned blacksmithing, which he followed for some time and later carried on a boot and shoe business in Pittsburg for three years.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred Twenty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and during a nine months' service participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Returning from the army in 1862, he commenced railroading in Allegheny City and had been an engineer for twenty-two years.
He married in 1867, Louisa, the daughter of John McKnight, and several children blessed their union; Florence, now Mrs. Harry Calhoon; Robert, deceased; Mary, Frederick, an attorney of Cambridge, Mass; Edith, Lulu and Ethel, at home. Mr. Deitrick was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the United Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In politics he was a Democrat.
Beaver Daily Times, Saturday, August 22, 1908, Page 1
WELL KNOWN ENGINEER DEAD
Fred A. Deitrick, a well known Pennsylvania lines engineer, died this morning at his home, No. 600 Thirteenth avenue, New Brighton. His death was sudden and came as a great shock to his family and friends. Last June he became suddenly ill on his train and was removed to his home and since then has not been on duty, although he was able to be about town.
Friday afternoon about five o'clock he suffered a stroke of paralysis and died this morning about eight o'clock. He was one of the best engineers the road had and was always a careful, trustworthy official.
Mr. Deitrick was born in 1842 in Marion township, Beaver county, and was the youngest of the five children of Frederick and Dorothy (Plugh) Deitrick. Frederick came from Alsace, France (now Germany), to this country in 1828, located on a farm in Butler county, Pa., in 1829, but after ward moved to this county. F.A., remained on the home farm until his fifteenth year, then learned blacksmithing, which he followed for some time and later carried on a boot and shoe business in Pittsburg for three years.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred Twenty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and during a nine months' service participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Returning from the army in 1862, he commenced railroading in Allegheny City and had been an engineer for twenty-two years.
He married in 1867, Louisa, the daughter of John McKnight, and several children blessed their union; Florence, now Mrs. Harry Calhoon; Robert, deceased; Mary, Frederick, an attorney of Cambridge, Mass; Edith, Lulu and Ethel, at home. Mr. Deitrick was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the United Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In politics he was a Democrat.
Beaver Daily Times, Saturday, August 22, 1908, Page 1
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Frederick A.
1842-1908
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