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Source:
History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co.,
1887

  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 - ILLUSTRATED - Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887 - Page 925
  Greencastle -
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 - ILLUSTRATED - Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887 - Page 736
  Warren Twp. -
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 - ILLUSTRATED - Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887 - Page 926

 

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