History of Northeast Indiana
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties
Editorial Supervisors: Ira Ford [LaGrange], Orville Stevens [Steuben],
William H. McEwen [Noble] & William H. McIntosh [DeKalb]
The Lewis Publishing Company
1920

Frank B. Deller, who has lived in Steuben County over sixty years, is
the only surviving so of a rather large family, and taking the old
homestead which had been cleared and improved by his father in Scott
township, he has gone steadily ahead improving and making use of his
talents, and has inceased his material possessions until he is now one
of the leading farmers of the county.
Mr. Deller was born in Williams County, Ohio, January 18, 1854, a son
of Benjamin and Hannah [Wolf] Deller. His mother was born in
Pennsylvania in 1823. Benjamin Deller, who was born in France in 1813,
was fourteen years old when he came with his parents to New York City.
He was a son of Gotlieb and Elizabeth Deller, who soon located in
Pennsylvania, and afterward moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, where
Gotlieb died a few years later on his farm. His widow then lived with
her children and moved with them to Williams County, Ohio, during the
‘40s. The Deller family had a log house in Williams County. In 1857
they came to Steuben County, where Benjamin Deller and wife settled on
the farm now owned by their son Frank. Of 160 acres not a stick of
timber had been cut, and the first home of the family was a log
building. Benjamin Deller as his means increased put up a substantial
barn in 1859 and a house in 1860, and lived there in comfortable
circumstances until his death in 1874. His wife died in 1876. He was a
democrat, and they were members of the Dunkard Church. Their children
were; Lucinda; William, who was a Union soldier, was wounded in battle
and died at Nashville, Tennessee; twin children who died in infancy;
Elizabeth; Jane; Frank; Mary; and Lydia.
Frank Deller grew up on the old homestead and acquired a good
education in the district schools and in the Angola High School. In
early manhood hi applied his energies to farming on the home place and
had just come to manhood when his father died. Taking the original 160
acres, he has gradually increased its area until he now has 358 acres.
This land is improved with modern buildings, and the material for those
buildings came chiefly from timber grown and cut on the farm. Mr.
Deller is a general farmer and stock raiser. He has a purbred Shorthorn
bull and grades of Holstein and Jersey cattle. He has never sought any
office, and is a democratic voter. He gave the land on which the South
Scott Union Church is built, and there his family attend church and
Sunday school.
Mr. Deller is proud of his family of children and his numerous
grandchildren. March 18,1877, he married Miss Clara Cleveland, who was
born in Steuben County, Novermber 11, 1859, a daughter of Frederick and
Amelia [Taylor] Cleveland. Her parents were pioneers in the county,
where her father died in 1864. Her mother later married John Lininger,
and she died August 6, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Deller have six children:
William, Lowell, Ella, Margie, Frank H *., and Wayne B. The two
youngest sons are in the home circle. William, whose home is in Steuben
township, married Lena Dutler and has five children, named Ruth, Maud,
Helen, Hershel, and Lewis. Lowell, who lives in the northwest corner of
Scott Township, maried Jennie Quance, and has four children, Audry,
Russell, Roscoe, and Margaret. Ella is the wife of Cary E. Covell,
former county surveyor and chairman of the Draft Board, and has two
children, Lucile and Wendell. Margie is the wife of Carl Sanders and
the mother of two children, Dorothy and Willis. Margie Deller was first
married to Earl Beard and had one son, Robert.

*2nd husband of Lola A. Baker d/o Frank W. Baker & Salome Catherine Wolf

Submitted by: Joey Pedigo