Diller, Roland W.

Born: 1822-10-05 Chester County, Pennsylvania

Died: 1905-08-18 Springfield, Illinois

Flourished: Springfield, Illinois

Roland W. Diller was a pioneer pharmacist in Springfield, Illinois. He arrived in Springfield in 1844, and worked for a year as a printer at the Illinois State Register. In 1846, he was a second lieutenant in the battalion of Illinois State Militia sent to Nauvoo to quell violence in the awake of the expulsion of Mormons from Illinois. In August 1849, Diller entered into partnership with Charles S. Corneau to open a drug store on the State Capitol square. Diller would continue in this business until shortly before his death. In 1850, he owned real property valued at $1,000. In October 1850, he married Esther C. Ridgway, with whom he would have three children. In 1860, Diller owned real property valued at $10,000 and a personal estate of $1,500. Diller was an active member of the Freemasons.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 633; Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 26 November 1846, 2:5; Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield), 17 July 1849, 3:1; 13 August 1849, 3:1; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Springfield, Sangamon County, IL, 125; William Wade Hinshaw and Thomas Worth Marshall, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1938), 2:857; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Springfield, Sangamon County, IL, 146; Gravestone, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL.