PETER DITTOE, JR., raised a farmer, left home at the age
of nineteen, learned telegraphing; took position in St. Louis
as tuner and repairer of pianos and organs, afterwards in
Cincinnati in the same
position, and after four years thus spent, he began, business
on his own account. After trying his business in Covington
and Baltimore, he settled in Evansville, Indiana, in 1872,
where he became eminently successful, and in 1879 he returned
to Mount Harrison, saved it from going into the hands of
strangers, and is making it his home. November 21st, 1867,
he was united in marriage to Mary Aloysia Zinn, daughter
of Peter Zinn, of Wheeling, West Virginia. It seldom happens
that so young a man, starting out in life when only nineteen,
succeeds in achieving sufficient means to purchase so fine
an estate, and retiring so early from active life, surrounded
with so many of its real comforts and means of happiness. |
