Frederick W. Dietter, president and treasurer of the New York & Connecticut News Bureau with offices at No. 87 Orange street, in New Haven, was born July 7, 1879, in the city where he still resides, a son of Otto and Margaret Dietter, the former now deceased. The father was the owner of a grocery and meat market in New Haven and thus provided for the support of his family. His wife's father during the period of the Civil war owned and conducted the Seaview Hotel, which was famous as a stopping place for soldiers during that period of conflict. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dietter were three sons and a daughter: J. H. Otto, deceased; Frederick W.; Louis A.; and Catherine, now Mrs. George Reichel, all living in New Haven.
     Frederick W. Dietter after attending the grammar schools was a member of the first class that entered the Boardman Manual Training high school after it was opened. His early business experience came to him as the assistant of his father in a store which the latter owned for twenty-three years prior to his death. In 1906 he and his brother, under the firm style of Dietter Brothers, opened a grocery and meat market, corner of Orange and Grove streets, which they conducted for seven years, at the end of which time Frederick W. Dietter became interested in his present line of business. This was established April 1, 1901, by John G. Muth and James E. Scott, New York men, as a partnership affair. On the 1st of March, 1906, Mr. Muth sold his interest to Mr. Scott and on the 1st of January, 1913, Mr. Dietter bought out Mr. Scott. The business had been previously incorporated in October, 1907, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars. Mr. Dietter is the president and treasurer, with Frank J. Bossier as the secretary and Richard S. Law as a director. The company has the fastest direct news service to the public in existence. It can be placed in any home by the simple expedient of using telephone wire already in the house and yet this does not interfere with the free use of the telephone. The company has direct wires to Washington, Baltimore, New York city, Boston and Philadelphia and is affiliated with the Stock Quotation Telegraph Company, No. 26 Beaver street, New York city, receiving all of its quotations and news through that point. The company today has one hundred and thirty-five clients and operates from Port Chester, New York, to Springfield, Massachusetts.
     On the 22nd of February, 1904, Mr. Dietter was united in marriage In Miss Harriet E. Eisele and they have two children: Frederick Otto, who was born in 1905; and Theodore Edward, born in 1909. Mr. Dietter has wide and varied interests. He belongs to Hamden Lodge, No. 30, F. & A. M., and to the New Haven Lodge of Elks. He is also a member of the Masonic Lodge. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is sergeant-at-arms of the Whitneyville Volunteer Fire Department. He was elected deputy judge of the Hamden county court in 1917 and in 1915 had been chosen a member of the school board of Hamden. He is an officer in the Whitneyville Congregational church and has been a teacher in its Sunday school for the past three years. All this indicates the nature and breadth of his interests, his activities being effectively put forth along those lines which contribute to the material, intellectual and moral progress of his community.