Leonora Heaton, the daughter Orange Barber
Heaton and his first wife Emily Bledsoe
was born in 1830.
The following data is extracted from The Diller Family, By JL Ringwalt.
Isaac R. Diller,
1819-1891, was born in Lancaster county, moved with his parents to Downingtown,
and was apprenticed to a West Chester printer. He was a close friend of Bayard
Taylor. Both became prominent in may fields, and always remained close friends.
After finishing his apprenticeship he became joint proprietor of the
Citizen-Soldier, in Philadelphia, and later occupied a similar position in
Harrisburg.
On the breaking out of the Mexican War, he enlisted in the First Pennsylvania
Regiment, was made commissary with the rank of Captain, which title he carried
through life. He accompanied General Scott to the City of Mexico. After being
discharged he came to Springfield, Illinois, where his sister, Maria, and
brother, Roland, lived. He was elected reading clerk in the House of
Representatives of the Illinois Legislature, entered the real estate business,
and was appointed postmaster under President Pierce. He took a prominent part in
Masonry and was state orator, and also chairman of the State Democratic
Committee, which brought him in close fellowship with Stephen A. Douglas. In
1852, he married Lenora Heaton, and built a fine home in Springfield, which was
torn down only in 1940. But property interests in Chicago took him there to
live, and there he continued in the real estate business. He was U. S. Counsel
to Bremen, Germany, under President Buchanan, and also to Florence, Italy, under
President Cleveland. He died in Philadelphia in 1891, and was buried in Chicago,
where his wife, who later died in Evanston, now lies beside him. Being
childless, they adopted a daughter, Linda, who is also buried by them.
The following extracts from Ancestry:
Marriage Record
Name: Isaac R. Diller
Spouse Name: Lenora S. Heaton
Marriage Date: Jun 24, 1851
Marriage County: Greene
Comments: This record can be found at the County Court Records, Film # 1310037 - 1310038.
Census
Census 1: 1840, Carrollton, Illinois.
Census 2: 1850, Carrollton, Greene, Illinois.
1880 Census
Name:
Isaac R. Diller
Home in 1880: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Age:
60
Estimated Birth : abt 1820
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Spouse's Name: Lenora S.
Father's birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's birthplace: Pennsylvania
Occupation: Retired Real Estate Agt.
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac R. Diller 60
Lenora S. Diller 48
Linda Diller 17
Della Nolan 23
1870 Census
Name: Isaac R Diller
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1820
Age in 1870: 50
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Chicago Ward 4, Cook, Illinois
Value of real estate: 60,000
Post Office: Chicago
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac R Diller 50
Leonora L Diller 37
Lydna Diller 7
Bridget Coopen 27
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