Biography of Peter R. Dirrim, Vol. II, page 396. History of Northeast 
Indiana.  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.  

   Peter R. Dirrim.  Dirrim is one of the names that occur most frequently 
in the annals both early and modern of DeKalb County and also of parts of 
Steuben County.  Peter R. Dirrim, a native of DeKalb County, has spent the 
greater part of his life as a practical farmer on the old Dirrim homestead 
in Otsego Township of Steuben County.
   He was born in Franklin Township of the former county October 12, 1851.  
He is a son of Isaac and Eleanor (Wycoff) Dirrim, and a grandson of Richard 
Dirrim.  Various members of the Dirrim family are referred to elsewhere in 
this publication.  Isaac Dirrim was born in Stark County, Ohio, and his wife 
was a native of that state, a daughter of Peter Wycoff. Isaac Dirrim came to 
DeKalb County and located in Franklin Township, in the same community where 
his brother William H. Dirrim lived.  He cleared a farm, put up buildings 
and in 1858 moved to the place now occupied by his son Peter in Otsego 
Township of Steuben County, where he acquired about 200 acres. He was a 
good influence in his community.  He was a member of the United Brethren 
Church.  He and his wife had a large family of eleven children: Elizabeth, 
who died unmarried; Sarah, deceased wife of Joseph Oberlin; Liza Ann, who 
was married to Alfred Kepler; Hannah, deceased wife of David W. Oberlin; 
Eveline, who married George H. Casper; William Cyrus, who spent his life 
in Kansas; Lovina, wife of Hiram Enzor; Peter R.; Martha, deceased wife of 
Benjamin Myers; Mary E., who first married James Hagerty and later E.A. 
Prawl; Ida Frances, deceased wife of Frank Albright.
   Peter R. Dirrim received his education in the public schools of Otsego 
Township.  He began assisting his father on his present farm in section 35 
when a youth, and during his individual management and ownership has 
erected all the substantial buildings on the land.  He owns 130 acres, 
twenty two of which are in Franklin Township of DeKalb County.
   February 24, 1872, Mr. Dirrim married Hannah Myers, daughter of James 
and Sarah (Slentz) Myers. Her father was also one of the early settlers of 
Franklin Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Dirrim have three children: Cyrus B., 
Frank Eugene and Birt.  Frank Eugene married Mabel Henselman and has five 
children, named Carrol, Alice, Clarence, Donald and Harold.  Birt is one 
of the progressive young farmers of this part of Indiana, owns sixty acres 
of land in section 1 of Franklin Township, and also handles his father’s 
farm.  He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Birt Dirrim married Audra 
V. Dirrim and has one child, Cecil.

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Arlene Goodwin
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