Theodore Diers, cashier of the Citizens State Bank at Sheridan, was born at Seward, Nebraska, December 4, 1880, his parents being Herman and Annie (Schulte) Diers. The father removed to Nebraska from the state of Iowa in 1869 and the following year established a general merchandise store in the town of Seward. In the same year he was married to Annie Schulte and both are still residents of Seward, being numbered among the highly respected people of that city.
    Theodore Diers acquired a public school education in Seward and afterward attended the Lincoln Business College at Lincoln, Nebraska. He started upon his business career as bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Seward when seventeen years of age and two years afterward was elected to the position of assistant cashier. In 1909 he came to Wyoming, where he opened the Clearmont State Bank in the town of Clearmont and in August of that year was employed as cashier. In March, 1910, he removed to Sheridan and assisted in the organization of the Citizens State Bank, of which he has since been cashier. In 1912 he was elected president of the Clearmont State Bank and still continues in that capacity. He is also treasurer of the Sheridan Building & Loan Association and is thus actively interested in financial affairs in his section of the state.
    Mr. Diers is identified with several fraternal organizations. He is identified with the Masons as a member of the lodge, chapter, commandery and Mystic Shrine and he is prominently known in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, having been a past exalted ruler of Sheridan Lodge of Elks in 1913 and district deputy grand exalted ruler of Wyoming in 1916. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and in 1912 he was elected to the lower house of the Wyoming legislature, where he made so creditable a record that in 1914 he was elected state senator from Sheridan county and served in the sessions of 1915 and 1917. In August of the latter year he was appointed federal food administrator for the state of Wyoming by President Wilson, and he is a member of the Wyoming State Council of National Defense, standing stanchly for those interests which uphold the national policy in this period of stress when America is bearing her part in the effort to save the world for democracy.