CHRISTIAN ZINN, farmer and carpenter, was born in Germany in 1835, one of nine children of Otto F. and Anna E. (Bernhardt) Zinn.  The father, born in the same place in 1802, and a machinist, remained there until his death in 1841.  The mother, born in Germany in 1804, died in 1847.  Educated in his native land, our subject came to New Orleans in 1853, and six months later to Kentucky.  In 1870 he came to Gallatin County, where he now lives on his fine farm of 280 acres, with coal under it.  In 1856 he married Mary J., daughter of James B. and Frances McMurtry, and born in Wayne County, Ill., in 1840.  Their eleven children are Elizabeth, James F., Fanny (deceased), Mary J., Charles C., Henry J., George B., Nora (deceased), William B., Bertha L, and Crystal (deceased).  Politically Mr. Zinn is a Democrat, and a member of the I. O. O. F.  He is of the Presbyterian, and his wife a member of the Christian Church.
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