Son of Valentine Adam Dieter and Elizabeth Hubner Dieter
Married Helena M Bucher
August 18, 1863 Du Page County, Illinois
"Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County Illinois,
Calument Book & Engraving Company 1898
Philip Dieter
Among the early German-born citizens of Chicago, was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, and first saw the light February 16, 1835. At the age of eleven years he came with his parents to Chicago. They soon after removed to Naperville, ILlinois, and purchased a farm, which the father continued to till during the remainder of his life.
In 1851, being then in his seventeenth year, the subject left home and went to California, where he engaged in gold-mining, packing freight over the mountains and in building sluices. Having invested his earnings in these latter occupations, they were finally lost by his return to Chicago, in 1860. Here he engaged in the hotel business, opening the Du Page House, at numbers 190-192 West Randolph Street, which is still in existence. He sold this in 1866, and engaged in farming in Iroquois County, Illinois, near the town of Clifton. Three years later he returned to the city, and located at the corner of North Park Avenue at Clark Street, where the Relic House now stands. Here he was burned out by the great fire of 1871, and went to Naperville, where he conducted his father's homestead one year.
Married Helena M Bucher
August 18, 1863 Du Page County, Illinois
"Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County Illinois,
Calument Book & Engraving Company 1898
Philip Dieter
Among the early German-born citizens of Chicago, was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, and first saw the light February 16, 1835. At the age of eleven years he came with his parents to Chicago. They soon after removed to Naperville, ILlinois, and purchased a farm, which the father continued to till during the remainder of his life.
In 1851, being then in his seventeenth year, the subject left home and went to California, where he engaged in gold-mining, packing freight over the mountains and in building sluices. Having invested his earnings in these latter occupations, they were finally lost by his return to Chicago, in 1860. Here he engaged in the hotel business, opening the Du Page House, at numbers 190-192 West Randolph Street, which is still in existence. He sold this in 1866, and engaged in farming in Iroquois County, Illinois, near the town of Clifton. Three years later he returned to the city, and located at the corner of North Park Avenue at Clark Street, where the Relic House now stands. Here he was burned out by the great fire of 1871, and went to Naperville, where he conducted his father's homestead one year.
Son of Valentine Adam Dieter and Elizabeth Hubner Dieter
Married Helena M Bucher
August 18, 1863 Du Page County, Illinois
"Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County Illinois,
Calument Book & Engraving Company 1898
Philip Dieter
Among the early German-born citizens of Chicago, was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, and first saw the light February 16, 1835. At the age of eleven years he came with his parents to Chicago. They soon after removed to Naperville, ILlinois, and purchased a farm, which the father continued to till during the remainder of his life.
In 1851, being then in his seventeenth year, the subject left home and went to California, where he engaged in gold-mining, packing freight over the mountains and in building sluices. Having invested his earnings in these latter occupations, they were finally lost by his return to Chicago, in 1860. Here he engaged in the hotel business, opening the Du Page House, at numbers 190-192 West Randolph Street, which is still in existence. He sold this in 1866, and engaged in farming in Iroquois County, Illinois, near the town of Clifton. Three years later he returned to the city, and located at the corner of North Park Avenue at Clark Street, where the Relic House now stands. Here he was burned out by the great fire of 1871, and went to Naperville, where he conducted his father's homestead one year.
Married Helena M Bucher
August 18, 1863 Du Page County, Illinois
"Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County Illinois,
Calument Book & Engraving Company 1898
Philip Dieter
Among the early German-born citizens of Chicago, was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, and first saw the light February 16, 1835. At the age of eleven years he came with his parents to Chicago. They soon after removed to Naperville, ILlinois, and purchased a farm, which the father continued to till during the remainder of his life.
In 1851, being then in his seventeenth year, the subject left home and went to California, where he engaged in gold-mining, packing freight over the mountains and in building sluices. Having invested his earnings in these latter occupations, they were finally lost by his return to Chicago, in 1860. Here he engaged in the hotel business, opening the Du Page House, at numbers 190-192 West Randolph Street, which is still in existence. He sold this in 1866, and engaged in farming in Iroquois County, Illinois, near the town of Clifton. Three years later he returned to the city, and located at the corner of North Park Avenue at Clark Street, where the Relic House now stands. Here he was burned out by the great fire of 1871, and went to Naperville, where he conducted his father's homestead one year.
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