Charles H. Diller, M.D.

From History of Frederick County. p. 1118-1119:

Charles H. Diller, M.D., a physician, whose skill has attracted to his support a large and influential clientele, is engaged in the practice of his profession at Detour, Carroll County, Md. He was born at the family homestead at Johnsville, Frederick County, October 23, 1851, and is a son of John and Margaret Ellen (Cramer) Diller.

The name Diller is French and was originally spelled De Ller. The family were Hugenots, and Casper De Ller went to Holland from the land of his nativity. Thence he traveled to England, where he was married to an English woman. About 1729 they emigrated to America and settled at New Holland, Pa. They were farmers. One of their descendants, General Diller, was adjutant of the Pennsylvania State troops. His relative, Major Enos Diller, was a brave soldier and distinguished himself at the battle of Brandywine. Some of the Dillers participated in the second war with Great Britain, 1812-15, and in the Mexican War.

The first of the name to settle in Maryland was Martin Diller, who located in the neighborhood of Johnsville, Frederick County, about 1829. He was the grandfather of Dr. Charles H. Diller. Mr. Diller was married to a Miss Wolf. They had issue, as follows: Jacob, Levi, John, William H., Martin, Jr., Annie, Eliza, Louisa, and Mary. Louisa Diller is the only one of these children living at present. She resides at Eureka, Kan., and is eighty-five years old.

John Diller, son of. Martin and Rachael (Wolf) Diller, was a boy when his parents removed from Pennsylvania to Maryland. He grew to maturity in the vicinity of Johnsville, Frederick County. He was a carpenter by trade but also worked at farming. He died near New Market, Frederick County, in 1890, aged sixty-nine years. He was a Lutheran, and a Republican but never sought office. He was a man of upright character and strict integrity. Mr. Diller was married to Margaret Ellen Cramer, daughter of Jacob and Susan (Umstead) Cramer. She is still living in Mount Pleasant District, being seventy-nine years old. Mr. and Mrs. Diller had these children: Charles H., our subject; Francis A., of Troy, O., an engineer, married Emma Fitch; John Hanson, of Liberty District, married Ida Kreglo; George Emory, of near Ellicott City, Md., married Annie Thomas, who died in Ohio; Jacob M., died young; Augustus Bradford, died in infancy; Clara Virginia, married Dr. James Leib, of Mount Pleasant, Frederick County; and Walter Cramer, a resident of Washington, D. C, married Blanche Kengla; Edwin Dorsey Diller, married Rosa A. Kolb.

Charles H. Diller, son of John and Margaret E. (Cramer) Diller, attended the public schools until he was sixteen years old. He then studied at Carroll Collegiate Institute, at Westminster, Md. Having decided to take up the study of medicine, he entered the University of Maryland, from which institution he was graduated in 1872. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Detour, Carroll County, and here he has ever since been located. He is one of the most prominent physicians of that part of the State and has a large and lucrative practice. He has won a high rank in the exacting field to which he has devoted himself.

In politics, Dr. Diller has been a life long Republican, and takes an active part in local campaigns. He has been a member of the Board of U. S. Examining Surgeons since July 1, 1897, having been appointed by President McKinley. He is a member of the Carroll County Medical Society, and the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. In religious affairs, he was raised in the Lutheran faith.

Dr. Diller was married March 30, 1876, to Anna Virginia Saylor, of Detour, who is a daughter of Jacob and Susan (Renner) Saylor. Children by this union are as follows: Ursa M., who is second lieutenant in the Twelfth United States Infantry, now stationed at Fort Porter, Buffalo, N. Y. was graduated from West Point in 1894, and is married to Mary Le Fevre; Verna Saylor, who married Webster Harnish, of New York, lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Roland R., who was formerly connected with the Crown Cork and Seal Company of Baltimore, and was later clerk at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is now a student in the Medical Department of the University of Maryland; Charles W., who cultivates the farm of 195 acres owned by his father in Woodsboro District, Frederick County, married Carrie O. Keilholtz, by whom he has two children, John Willie and Charles Donald; and Willie C, died at the age of eighteen years.