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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co.,
1887
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WILLIAM
S. ZEIGLER, farmer, P. O. Middle Spring,
Cumberland County, was born Oct. 10, 1846, in
Fannett Township, this county. His
ancestors came from Germany. His
grandfather, Michael Zeigler, lived near
Shippensburg, Penn., where he farmed and resided
several years; later he moved to Galesburg,
Ill., where he died at the home of his son,
Isaac Zeigler. His was a resident of
Newville, Cumberland Co., Penn., several years
before moving west to his son Isaac.
His son Henry manipulated a pottery in
Newville, Penn., until his death. His
children were William, Isaac, Henry, Michael,
Mrs. Susan Walters, Mrs. Mary A. Kegerreis
and Mrs. Elizabeth Reboch. Isaac,
Michael and William were tinners.
Isaac was married in Path Valley, this
county, where he followed his trade and lived
until about 1856, when he went west and settled
in Galesburg, Ill. Previously he traveled
through different States and Territories.
At Galesburg he associated with James Andrews,
a former resident of Path Valley, and together
they built up quite a trade in the hardware
business; he was numbered among the leading
citizens of that place. He died in the
fall of 1871, aged fifty-one years. He was
a member of the Baptist Church; politically a
Republican. He married Mary A.,
daughter of Lawrence and Mary A. (Skinner)
Hammond, old settlers of the valley.
Lawrence Hammond was born in Spring Run
in February, 1797; was married to Mary
Skinner March 16, 1818; moved to Spring Run
in April, 1818. There they lived together
on the same farm continuously until his death
which occurred April 6, 1883. He left to
his children property amounting to over
$100,000. They were the parents of fifteen
children, and had sixty-four grandchildren, 118
great-grandchildren and five
great-great-grandchildren. His wife,
Mary Hammond, has lived to nurse five
generations. She is still living (Dec. 4,
1886) with her daughter, Mrs. William A.
Mackey, on the "old homestead."
Lawrence and Mary Hammond, in the presence
of many relatives, celebrated in 1868 and 1878,
respectively, the fiftieth and sixtieth
anniversary of their wedding. Mrs. Mary
A. Zeigler died in 1854. Their
children were William S., Mrs. Anna M.
Griffith, of Galesburg, Ill., and Jennie
Lind Zeigler, who died in Galesburg in the
fall of 1868, aged eighteen years. Our
subject was educated in this county, and farmed
for his grandfather Hammond seventeen
successive years, until the spring of 1884, in
Path Valley. He then removed to
Southampton Township, where he owns two farms
and also two store properties in Galesburg, Ill.
He first married Hattie Rhodes, who died
Mar. 24, 1871, in Path Valley, the mother of one
child - Jennie Lind, who died Mar. 24,
1870. His second wife, Rachel P. Hoch,
is the mother of one girl - Anna M. Mr.
Zeigler is a Democrat, as was also his
grandfather, and has filled township offices in
Path Valley.
Source: History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
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Greencastle
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GEORGE W. ZIEGLER,
merchant, Greencastle, was born near Leitersburg,
Washington Co., Md., Apr. 30, 1810. Having
obtained a fair education in the subscription
schools in vogue at that time, at the age of
nineteen he became an employe in a general store
at Leitersburg, where he remained three years.
He was next engaged in selling goods in
Hagerstown, Md., for one year; thence in 1833 he
came to Greencastle, where he bought out the
interest of John G. Miller, in the firm
of Stonebraker & Miller,
consisting of a small stock of dry goods,
groceries, etc., and formed a partnership with
Mr. Stonebraker under firm name of
Stonebraker & Ziegler. The stock was
somewhat increased by the new firm, which
continued in business until 1838, in which year
Mr. Ziegler bought out his partner's
interest. He continued in the business
alone until 1850,when he formed a partnership
with his brother David, under the firm
name of George W. Ziegler & Co.
This firm continued until 1876, and was then
changed to George W. & D. Ziegler, which
is the present style of the firm. This
business has been conducted on the same corner,
and mainly in the same room, since 1833, and
Mr. Ziegler is now the oldest established
merchant in Greencastle. The average stock
now carried by the firm is from $15,000 to
$20,000, and the business has continued to
increase steadily, until it stands second
of its kind in the county. Mr. Ziegler
was married in 1842, in Greencastle, to Miss
Maria Fatzinger (daughter of George and
Catherine Fatzinger), who died in 1847,
leaving three children, only one of whom,
George Frederick, survives. Our
subject, from his first arrival in Greencastle,
took an active interest in politics. He
was first a Whig, and later a Republican.
He was a member of the Republican National
Convention held at Philadelphia, in 1856, which
nominated John C. Fremont and William
L. Dayton for President and Vice-President
of the United States. Mr. Ziegler
was an ardent advocate of the adoption of the
free school system in Pennsylvania, and has been
its constant friend since its establishment.
For the greater portion of his life he has been
the friend of the temperance cause.
Although born in a slave State, from early
boyhood he firmly stood in opposition to human
slavery, and he was one of the earliest
advocates in Franklin County of extending the
right of suffrage to the freedman. Mr.
Ziegler ever since his residence in
Greencastle has always been ready to lend a
helping hand to every enterprise that he has
deemed worthy of his aid, and which in his
judgment was calculated to promote the interest,
well-being and prosperity of the town and its
vicinity. He took a prominent part in the
rehabilitation of the Franklin Railroad after it
had fallen into a state of complete
dilapidation, and also in all the preliminary
work necessary for the establishment of the
First National Bank of Greencastle, in which he
has been one of the directors from its
organization.
Source: History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
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JOHN ZIMMERMAN, merchant,
Sylvan. In 1800 Jacob Zimmerman
came from near Creagerstown, Md., to
Pennsylvania, and later married Martha,
daughter of Frederick Smith one of the
early settlers of Bedford County. After
marriage Jacob began domestic life on his
father's farm, which he had previously purchased
(the ancestral farm is now the property of
Araham Zimmerman). Later he purchased
a farm adjoining Sylvan, on which was a mill
built by David John; it was the first
erected on Cove Creek and was used only for
cheap feed; this was replaced by a grist mill
made of logs, which was, in 1838, torn down and
a large three-story and basement stone-mill
erected by Jacob. He was an enterprising and
energetic business man, and a prominent figure
in the early history of the little village.
He was the father of
twelve children, five of whom are now living:
Peter, married to Vina Brewer;
John (our subject); Samuel,
married to Eliza Kuhn (now
deceased); Elizabeth, widow of
Frederick Free, and Catherine,
widow of George Graham.
John Zimmerman was born March 14, 1814.
He married Elizabeth Houck, who
bore him thirteen children (eleven now living),
and who died in 1865. The following are
the names of the living children: Rev.
William H., who married Ellen
Minich (is a Methodist Episcopal minister in
Kansas); John M., also
married; Martha A., widow of Calvin
McCullough; Margaretta, wife of W.
Scott McCullough; Hiantha, wife of John
Braguner; Georgiana, wife of John
McCullough: Jeremiah D., Emmey
Bell, wife of Edward Voorhees;
Ellen, wife of J. Tolston;
Carrie and Seth, unmarried, at home
with their father. All except the last two
named are in the Western States. In 1840
Mr. Zimmerman commenced mercantile
business in Sylvan, and has continued without
interruption to the present time. He has
also been postmaster since 1844.
Source: History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
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