An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL. 1893 J.C. DIERINGER, the leading man in the new town of Dieringer, Washington, was born March 12, 1851, twenty miles from Canton, Ohio. Mr. Dieringer is truly a self-made man. He began life on his own responsibility when he was eleven years old, working to support himself during the summer and attending school during the winter. He was employed as clerk in a general merchandise store for three years prior to moving to Madison, Wisconsin, where he clerked in a hotel for a year and a half. At Madison he attended the Wisconsin University for three years, and was a student in the Wortherton Business College three years. He was employed in railroad work for the Wisconsin Central one year, as a member of a surveying party, and after that went to northern Wisconsin to work in the pineries. He assisted in taking several fleets of lumber down the Mississippi to St. Louis, being employed for two years as superintendent of the C.J.L. Meyers Lumber Co. After that he turned his attention to the boot and shoe business, being employed as traveling salesman for the wholesale firm of Meisner Bros., and after traveling for some time engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, with a capital of about $7,000. Owing, however, to the great depression in money matters throughout the State about that time, he was obliged to close his business, and again we find him in railroad employ. He was civil engineer for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and afterward for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, being employed by the latter company from 1880 till 1882. In 1882, accompanied by his wife, he went back to Wisconsin, and that same year came to Tacoma, Washington, he being in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. While working for the company, he located on 160 acres of laud in Stuck valley, but he was obliged to enter contest in order to get the land, which was first filed on by H. Dagget. Mr. Dagget vacated and then William Spinning commenced contest. After much litigation, three decisions have been rendered: the case was finally settled February 6, 1866. In July of that year Mr. Dieringer moved on to his farm, and has since devoted his time and energies to its improvement and cultivation. He has cleared 160 acres and tiled the same, having put in 313,600 feet of tile, at a cost of about $9,000. He has ten acres in hops, ten acres in orchard and small fruit, and the rest is devoted hay and grain. He has about forty-five milch cows, fifteen horses, seventy-five sheep and sixty hogs, and his farm is well equipped with all the necessary implements and conveniences. He has a hop kiln 32 x 60 feet, and a barn 40 x 80 feet, and another 30 x 60 feet. As showing the fertility of his soil we give the yield per acre of his crops: Potatoes, 350 bushels; hay, three and one-half tons; hops, one and two-thirds tons per acre. Mr. Dieringer runs a general store, has charge of the railroad station, and is also Postmaster at Dieringer, having been appointed Postmaster by President Cleveland. Since 1892 he has also been a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Dieringer was married August 6, 1877, to Ann B. Schmitking, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have two daughters and one son, - Josephine and Grace, and Andrew M. It should be further stated that Andrew Dieringer, the father of our subject, is of German birth, is a blacksmith by trade, and is now living on a farm. In 1854 he settled in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, where he took a homestead claim to 320 acres of timber land, cleared the same and put it under cultivation, and still resides on the old homestead. Mrs. Dieringer, the wife of our subject, is also of German birth. Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in January 2004 by Jeffrey L. Elmer * * * * Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.