McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Diller, Jacob W., D.D

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Diller, Jacob W., D.D


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a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1810. He was ordained deacon in 1834 and presbyter in 1835. With the exception of four years as rector of St. Stephen's Church in Middlebury, Vermont, his entire ministry was spent in St. Luke's, Brooklyn. He was lost in the burning of the steamer Seawanhaka, off Randall's Island, N.Y., June 28, 1880, aged seventy years. See Whittaker, Almanac and Directory, 1881.