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Chief of police, Fort Wayne, thirteen years
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Deihl — Griswold's sketch head prints the name "Delhi," a variant the portrait index gives as Deihl — enlisted at sixteen for ninety days in a Pennsylvania infantry regiment, re-enlisted, and served nearly the whole Civil War, rising to captain. Trained as a machinist, he came by way of Chicago to Fort Wayne and the Pennsylvania Railroad shops. He then served thirteen years as chief of the Fort Wayne police department; on resigning he returned to the Pennsylvania Railroad and worked there until his death. His widow, Ada Romelia (Jones) Deihl, remained at 525 East Berry Street; his daughter Lillie married the Hon. James M. Robinson.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.