Biography of Moses Deitz, page 564.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Moses Deitz, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Holmes County, Ohio, 
born Aug. 28, 1835, the fourth son of Henry E. Deitz.  He was reared on a 
farm in his native county, and in the spring of 1853 came with his father 
to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Fairfield Township.  He assisted his 
father in clearing and improving his farm, remaining with him till his 
marriage, March 2, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth Boyer, a daughter of Michael 
Boyer, one of the early settlers of the county.  After his marriage he 
bought eighty acres of land on section 3, Fairfield Township, where he 
lived till 1875, when he sold his farm and bought a part of his father’s 
old homestead.  He owns fifty acres of choice land, under a fine state of 
cultivation, and his residence and farm buildings are comfortable and 
commodious.  To him and his wife have been born two children; both died in 
infancy.  They are members of the German Reformed church.  In politics he 
affiliates with the Democratic party.

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