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J. W. Frable, who is now the treasurer of the Fairmount Trust Company, of Philadelphia.
YOUNGER FAMILY.
Henry C. Younger, of the firm of Koch and Younger, dealers in hay, grain, feed, etc., is a grandson of Casper Younger, a native of Bavaria, was born in 1790 and migrated with his parents. settling in Lehigh county. He served as an offi cer in the war of 1812. He was a carpenter by trade, and followed his vocation very successfully both in Philadelphia and in the Lehigh Valley. He married Catherine Fink, of Upper Saucon, and had children: Elizabeth, Elias Edward, Louisa (Mrs. Samuel Eberts), and William. He died in 1869 in his 79th year. William was born November 25, 1825, in Upper Saucon, but as an infant removed with his parents to Phila- delphia. Here he received the rudiments of an English education and learned the art of a silver- smith. At the age of 18 he returned to Upper Saucon and with his uncle, John Berger, engaged in milling enterprises. At the breaking out of the Mexican War he enlisted in Company B, Third United States Dragoons, under Capt. But- ler. This company was principally engaged in guarding supply trains and occasionally in skir- mishing. Their camps being successively at Palo Alto, Matamoras, and Mier, at the head of the Rio Grande. At the expiration of eighteen months the company was discharged in July, 1848, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. For a brief period, Mr. Younger engaged in the pur- suit of his trade, but in 1850 the roving spirit again seized him and he went to California, re- turning in 1852. The following year he made a second trip to California. In 1855 he came to Catasauqua and entered into partnership with Milton Berger in operating Biery's mill. His partner having died in 1871, Mr. Younger purchased his interests and con- tinued operating the mill. He introduced the modern methods and machinery and enjoyed a large and profitable trade. In 1857 he was married to Isabella Kurtz, a daughter of Henry Kurtz, of Hanover township. Their children are: Amanda L., Emma J. (deceased), William (deceased), Grand R. (deceased), Henry C., Ada I., Esther A., and Ralph. He was a mem- ber of the Lutheran church. In 1892 he re- tired from the milling business, and was suc- ceeded by Uriah Kurtz. His wife died June 6, 1897, after an illness of three days; both lie buried at Schoenersville.
HENRY C. YOUNGER was born at Catasauqua, July 24, 1869. As a boy he attended the public schools and graduated from the Catasauqua high school. He learned the milling trade in his
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father's mill and followed it for ten years. In 1896 Mr. Younger became a member of the present firm of Koch and Younger, the only feed dealers in Catasauqua. In politics Mr. Younger is a Democrat and is an active worker. He was a member of the standing County Com- mittee from 1897 to 1903. He is well read on public questions. In 1890 he became a member of the Phoenix Fire Company and has held every minor office and served as assistant chief and the office of chief itself. He is a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
WILLIAM YELLIS.
William Yellis, engineer at Allentown Water Works for twenty-five years, was born April 9, 1845, in North Whitehall (now Whitehall) township. He received his education in the township school and assisted his father in a grist and saw-mill until he became of age, then he married, and, after assisting his father-in-law in zinc mines near Friedensville for a time, ran saw-mills at Centre Valley and Friedensville for several years. He next rented his father's grist- mill and ax handle factory near by and operated them five years. In 1884, he moved to Allen- town, and was employed in a grist-mill and furni- ture factory until 1889, when he secured a posi- tion at the water works of the city and continued there for twenty-five years until his decease, first as a fireman for a short time, and then as assistant engineer, to which he was promoted for efficiency. He was a member of the Hancock Conclave of Heptasophs, No. 120, of Allentown, and of the St. Michael's Lutheran church; and in politics he was a Democrat.
In 1867, Mr. Yellis was married to Mary C. Cole, daughter of John and Harriet (Rudman) Cole, of Lower Saucon township. He died Jan.' 3, 1914, and she on June 8, 1905. 'Both were buried in the Greenwood cemetery. : They had five children : Laura Agnes, who died in infancy ; William Irwin, m.' Agnes Reichard; Maggie May, m. Robert E. Thomas; Frederick Allen; and Alma Harriet.
Abraham Yellis, his father, was a successful miller at the mouth of Spring creek on the west bank of the Lehigh river, between Laury's and Cementon, for many years, until he sold the prop- erty to the Clear Springs Water Company; then lived in retirement five years, and died at the age of 65 years. He was married to Elizabeth Trum- bauer and they had three children: Kittie Ann, m. John E. Rockel; John, who died in 1913; and William. They were members of the Lu- theran church at Egypt. Upon the decease of his wife, he married Susanna ( Huston) Lerch; the widow of Michael Lerch.
ZIEGENFUS FAMILY.
The earliest record of the Ziengenfus family in America appears in Rupp's "Names of Thirty Thousand Immigrants," Page i28, A similar. though more complete record may also be found in the Penna. Arch., Series 2, Vol. 17. From- these. records. we learn that on the :28th day of, October, 1738, the ship "Thistle," under Captain George Houston, arrived at Philadelphia, among. whose passengers were the following: , Hans Jacob Ziegenfus, age 44, and his wife. Anna Eliza, age 38, and the following children: Andrew, age 15; Kattarina, age 12; Hans Christopher, age 10; Hans Jacob, age 6; Anna Maria, age 5; Paul, age 4; and Henry, age. 3.
Andrew, the eldest son, settled in Springfield township, Bucks county, Pa., and according to the. records of the- Pennsylvania .Land Office (Penna .. Arch., Series 3, Vol. 24), he, on Oct. 28, 1746,- took out a warrant for- 100 acres of land in Bucks- county. The tract owned by him in Springfield lay along the. Durham township line and joined the land of Henry Houpt. Both Ziegenfus and Houpt owned grist-mills on the Durham creek, where Houpt's Mill is still located ..
Andrew Ziegenfus was naturalized Sept. 23, 1.767. - The Springfield tax list of . 1779 contains his name; as well as those of his two sons, Andrew, Jr., and George.
Jacob, son of George Ziegenfus, was born March 29, 1788, and baptized at -the old Wil- liam's church, May 6th, of the same year. ~ Be- fore his marriage he migrated to Barry town- ship, Schuylkill county; Pennsylvania, and there settled on a farm. He was united in marriage with Mrs. Sarah . ( Heater) Merkle, widow of Gideon Merkle, and had the following children : Jacob, Solomon, and Charles.
: Charles, son 'of' Jacob and Sarah ( Heater) (Merkle) Ziegenfus, was born Nov. 19, 1820. With his brother, "Solomon, he fell heir to the farm left by his father, Jacob Ziegenfus. He married Susan Bixler; of Mahantongo, Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania. This union was bless- ed with the following children: Elizabeth, who became the wife of Elias Slobig; Lucy, the wife of Ephraim Yarnell; Lydia, the wife of Jacob Umlauf, Elias ; and Charles. .- His death occurred Jan .- 19, 1859.
Charles, son of Charles Ziegenfus, was born Dec. 18, 1849, and at' the age of ten was left an orphan. He made his home with his brother-' in-law, Elias Slobig, where he remained until he was old enough to learn a trade. In 1860, he, with the Slobig family, removed to Locustdale, a small mining town about one mile west of Ashland, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where
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he was occupied in various capacities about the coal mines and coal breakers. He worked nine months each year, attending public school the remaining three months, until he had reached the age of fourteen, when he worked all the year, going to night school during the winter months. In 1867 he was bound to Willoughby Missimer, Saegersville, Lehigh county, Pennsylania, for two years and six months, to learn the trade of car- riage-making. For his services he received his board, washing and mending, and, at the end of the specified term, one hundred and fifty dollars. After serving eighteen months of his time, Mr. Nissimer moved to Alburtis, where he had ac- quired an interest in the business of Thomas J. Reinhard, taking his apprentice along with him to serve the balance of his term. After the ex- piration of his apprenticeship, Mr. Ziegenfus worked at his trade in Rahway, N. J., Albany, N. Y., Lehighton, and Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. In 1871, at Schuylkill Haven, he and his brother formed a partnership for the manufacturing and retailing of furniture. In 1879, this partnership was dissolved, and in the same year, Mr. Ziegen- fus accepted a position with the A. H. Heilman Company, furniture manufacturers, Williams- port, Pennsylvania, to represent them in the states of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. In 1880, he removed to Allentown, and bought an interest in the business of the B. F. Schlegel Company, manufacturers of parlor suite frames. In 1884, their factory was destroyed by fire and the firm liquidated. In the spring of 1885 he became associated with C. A. Dorney & Com- pany, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of furniture, as their representative in New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wash- ington. In the fall of the same year he pur- chased the interest of E. H. Stine in the above- named company and of which he has been a mem- ber ever since.
In 1893 this company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, with a capi- tal of two hundred thousand dollars, and the name changed to The C. A. Dorney Furniture Company.
The first board of directors consisted of: C. A. Dorney, president; B. M. Krause, secretary ; Chas. Ziegenfus, treasurer. In 1898, Chas. Zie- genfus & Sons purchased all the stock of the com- pany and became the sole owners. The officers and directors were then elected as follows: Chas. Ziegenfus, president ; J. Walter Ziegenfus, vice- president ; Chas. E. Ziegenfus, secretary and treas- urer. Directors: Mrs. Chas. Ziegenfus and Harry E. Ziegenfus. In 1908, Chas. Ziegenfus and Sons purchased the property at No. 612 Hamilton street, and erected a six-story, fire-
proof building, to which during May, 1910, the company removed their retail store from Nos. 333 and 335 Hamilton street, where they had been located for many years. This new store is the largest exclusive furniture house in the state.
In 1894, Mr. Ziegenfus purchased ground at Sixteenth and Hamilton streets, on which he erected one of the handsomest residences in the city, and in which the family has since lived.
Mr. Ziegenfus was married to Anna M. C. Romig, daughter of August and Lydia (Bear) Romig, of Lower Macungie township, on the 16th of October, 1870, the union having been blessed with the following children : Charles E .; William A., died in 1893; Mame E., wife of George T. Spang, Lebanon, Pa .; J. Walter; Harry E .; Helen M .; and Marguerite, who died in infancy.
In 1907, when the Allentown Trust Company was organized, Mr. Ziegenfus was elected a di- rector of the company and is at present serving on the board of directors.
He is also a director of the Hainesport Mining and Transportation Company, Hainesport, New Jersey. This company is engaged in digging Jer- sey gravel, bar sand and pebbles, and in addition operates a stone-crushing plant on the Berks street wharf in Philadelphia, Pa.
John Henry Ziegenfus was born in Durham, Bucks county, in 1809, and, after living in New Jersey for some time, removed to Friedensville in 1829, and died there in 1899. He was a shoe- maker by trade, and had charge of a farm for the Lehigh Zinc Company. He married Sarah Mar- steller, and had children: William, a member of Company K, Fifty-fourth Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Infantry, died during the Civil War; Matilda, died unmarried; Amos; Charles H., of further mention; Evaline, married Joseph Stern; Nathan, a physician and surgeon of Beth- lehem, born Dec. 20, 1849; Rebecca, married Thomas Readington, of Ambler.
CHARLES H., son of John Henry and Sarah (Marsteller) Ziegenfuss, a great-great-grandson of Andrew, was born at Friedensville, Pa., Jan. 19, 1840. Until the age of seventeen years he worked on the farm, then one year in the iron- ore mines, and four years in the zinc mines. For a number of years he was superintendent of all the iron ore mines owned and operated by the Bethlehem Iron Company, being in the employ of this company forty years. In 1883 he went to Cuba, where he was general superintendent and manager of the Bethlehem Iron Company and the Penn Steel Company, both known under the name of Inraqua Iron Company. He was also vice-president and general manager of the Ponn-
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po Mining Company, Santiago de Cuba; presi- dent of the Sabanilla and Moroto Railroad Com- pany, and consulting engineer of the Cuban Steel Ore Company. He was considered an ex- pert in the iron ore business, and had charge of as many as six thousand men. He was in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and Queen Isabella, of Spain, presented to him a military badge made of cut silver with the em- blem of Spain on it, the royal standard, and the Maltese cross. He also received a number of personal letters from the Queen, and had a per- sonal acquaintance with all the leading Spanish and American generals. On a visit to his home in the North, he was called to Washington into consultation with the officials of our government, and gave information which was of material as- sistance to us in the conduct of the war. Mr. Ziegenfus entertained General Wood for two weeks at his residence, and met Theodore Roose- velt personally at Santiago. General Wood's staff occupied his residence in Cuba six months, and presented him a silver loving cup on- which the names of the staff are inscribed. In a book on "Cuba, Its Resources and Opportunities," Mr. Ziegenfuss is mentioned as the most prominent American business man on the island. He rep- resented various large American enterprises which had an aggregate value of more than eight mil- lion dollars. The book, "Soldiers of Fortune," by Richard Harding Davis, was written in Mr. Ziegenfuss' cottage, known as "La Cruz Cot- tage." In 1900, Mr. Ziegenfuss returned to Bethlehem, where he has since resided at No. 148 First avenue, West Side. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, dur- ing the Civil War, and held the rank of corporal. He is an ardent Republican, and has been in office as a school director in West Bethlehem for eight years. His religious affiliation is with Holy Trinity church, of which he has been a trustee many years. He is a member of Bethlehem Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Zinzendorf Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Allen Command- ery, Knights Templar; Philadelphia Consistory, 32°, A. A. S. R .; Coopersburg Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Ziegenfuss married (first), in 1861, Eliza, born in 1842, died in Cuba in 1899, a daughter of Solomon and Eliza (Rice) Bender, of Hellertown. They had children: Mary Jane, married Alfred Boas, now deceased ; Charles H., Jr., of West Bethlehem, head of the C. H. Ziegen- fuss & Company, operators of stone crushers and quarries ; Emma, died young; William H., died young; Amanda E., deceased, married Penrose Mertz ; Thomas, died young ; Samuel J., of West
Bethlehem, foreman at the Guerber Iron Works. Mr. Ziegenfuss married (second), in 1901, An- nie, a daughter of Robert and Jane ( Hutton) Bell, the former born in Scotland, the latter of Nazzan, New Providence, Bahamas. Mrs. Zie- genfuss was born in Nazzan, and, in 1878, came to Rhode Island. Like her parents and great- grandparents, she has taken a great interest in the art of music, being engaged in teaching this art for a number of years, and had a large number of pupils.
DR. SAMUEL T. ZEHNER.
Benjamin Zehner was a farmer and lived in West Penn township, Schuylkill county. He and his family were Lutherans and he was buried in the cemetery at Zion's Stone church. He was married to Miss Horn and they had the following children : Solomon, Levi, Timothy, Charles, Thomas, Polly (married to Lewis Mantz), Hannah (married to Isaac Mantz), Cadilla (married to Joel Kleckner), Masitta (married to Jonas Frantz), and Amanda (mar- ried to David Z. Gerber).
Charles Zehner, the fourth son of Benjamin, was a farmer of West Penn township, in Schuyl- kill county, born in August, 1842, and died in July, 1905, having been buried in the cemetery at Zion's church where he had served in the consistory and had taken an active interest in the church welfare. He also served as the township supervisor and tax collector. He was an extensive farmer, having owned and operated three farms.
His wife was Caroline Gerber, daughter of David Gerber, and they had nine children: El- len, Ellsworth, Benjamin, Franklin, Dr. Wil- liam H., Thomas M., John A., Dr. Samuel T., and James ( who died when two years old).
Dr. Samuel T. Zehner son of Charles Zehner, is a native of West Penn township in Schuylkill county, born June 6, 1876. After receiving his preliminary education in the local schools and the Ohio Normal University (now Ohio North- ern University), he entered the Jefferson Medi- cal College at Philadelphia, in 1898, and attend- ed the lectures during a period of four years, graduating and receiving his diploma in 1902. He then engaged in preliminary practice for a year in the office of Dr. W. L. Longfellow, and of his brother, Dr. William H. Zehner, and with this preparation he embarked in the 'general practice of medicine at Lynnport in March, 1903, where he has since been actively engaged, and pays professional visits to families within a radius of fifteen miles. He has become affiliated with the Independent Order of Americans at Kempton; the Junior Order United American
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Mechanics at New Tripoli, and the P. O. S. of A., at Steinsville. Dr. Zehner was one of the organizers and is a director of the National Bank of New Tripoli.
Dr. Zehner was married in 1901 to Cora Ada Zimmerman, daughter of Alfred and Catharine (George) Zimmerman, and they have five chil- dren : Loraine A .; Vera M .; George S .; Harold H. ; and Woodrow.
He and family are Lutheran members of the Ebenezer church, at New Tripoli.
ZOLLNER (ZELLNER) FAMILY.
The Zöllners, or Zellners, were in Pennsyl- vania by the middle of the eighteenth century ; Conrad, Christian and John, who were relatives if not brothers, having settled in Milford town- ship, Bucks county, which is now embraced in Lehigh.
Conrad Zöllner came in the ship Phoenix and was naturalized Aug. 28, 1750. He was a Lu- theran and became a member of St. Peter's church. In 1756, he was a soldier in the pro- vincial service which was called out to defend the frontiers from the incursions and cruelties of the Indians. He married Margaretha Camerer, or Kemmerer, and they had a son named John, born Sept. 12, 1747, and died in Lehigh county, Jan. 20, 1824, who was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, married Maria Elizabeth Woll, and had four sons and four daughters, of whom two sons, John and Peter, and two daughters lived to maturity.
Christian Zöllner was married to Susanna Stahl and lived in Milford in 1761. One of his sons was a lieutenant in a Northampton regi- ment in 1794 (probably in the Whiskey Insur- rection), and some of his descendants are still living in the vicinity of Dillingersville, Lehigh county.
John Zöllner, the third of the three brothers, was born Dec. 3, 1743, and died May 26, 1834. He was married to Susanna, a daughter of George and Magdaline Mogel Getman, and they had ten children. Among them were Aaron, a Mennonite minister of Michigan; Hannah, who married Benjamin F. Brown, of Philadelphia; Sophia, who married the late Charles Hamilton, of Doylestown, on April 2, 1845; and Peter, a soldier of the English War of 1812-15, whose wife was Elizabeth, and they had seven children.
Daniel Zellner was born about the year 1760 and lived in what is now Washington township, Lehigh county. He conducted a saw-mill and made flour barrels, besides farming a small tract of land. He was a member of the Lutheran con- gregation of the Unionville church, where he was
buried. He had a number of children, among them being Daniel and John.
Daniel Zellner, the son named, was born in Washington township, on Oct. 15, 1794, and died Dec. 19, 1864. He was also a cooper, operated a saw-mill. and died on the old Zellner homestead, where he had lived all his life. He was a member of the same Unionville church, where he also was buried. He was married to Elizabeth Strohl, born Feb. 16, 1792, and died May 30, 1871, and they had six children, all of whom were born on the homestead; Reuben, born in 1825, died in 1857; Daniel, born May 15, 1828, and died Jan. 1, 1890, having married (first) Lucy Remaly, and (second) Maria Ann Kern, who was born July 27, 1829, and died Feb. 20, 1905; William, born June 15, 1831, died June 23, 1864, having married Maria T. Kern; Stephen, married Matilda Deibert; Eliza, married James Kuntz; and Charles.
Charles Zellner, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, was born on the old homestead in Washington township on Aug. 18, 1817. He was also a cooper and operated a small farm. During the summer he worked on the Lehigh canal and in the slate quarries. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran congregation at Friedensville and served many years as deacon and elder and was one of the building committee when the church was remodeled. He was married to Susan Re- maly, a daughter of William Remaly. He died Aug. 9, 1891 ; she was born March 19, 1822, and died Feb. 6, 1897; and they had the following children: Thomas; Joseph, born in 1851 ; Den- nis; Wilson ; Willoughby, born in 1854; Benja- min, born in 1858; Maria, born in 1864, mar- ried to Joseph Henritzy; and Susanna, born in 1852, married to Thomas Jones.
THOMAS ZELLNER, son of Charles and Susan, one of the leading business men at Slatington, . was born Feb. 8, 1844, in Washington township, on the old grandfather's homestead. As a boy he assisted his father in the saw-mill and cooper- shop, but when the Civil War arose and the government called for troops, his patriotic spirit was aroused, and he responded by enlisting on Aug. 8, 1862, for nine months, in Co. G, of the 128th Regiment, Penna. Vols., and after the ex- piration of his term he re-enlisted for three more months in Co. J, of the 38th Regiment, Penna. Vols. He participated in the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. During his last enlistment he served as a first sergeant.
After his honorable discharge from the military service, he returned to Slatington and engaged in the business of opening or stripping off slate quar- ries for a short time; then he embarked in the timber business, which he has now carried on
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successfully for a period of fifty years, employing at times fifteen men; and while doing this he was also engaged in the slate business employing as many as sixty men.
For forty years Mr. Zellner has been promi- nently identified and largely interested in the in- dustrial and financial affairs of Slatington and that vicinity. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens National Bank at Slatington and has served as a director since its organization ; he is president of the Slatington Knitting Mill, which employs fifty persons; he is one of the partners in the Rice Department store; he was one of the organizers of the Shenton Land Com- pany, which owns 73 acres of valuable slate land at Slatedale, where seven active quarries are in operation, employing altogether about 400 per- sons ; he is a director of the Eagle Metallic Cop- per Company, in Adams county ; and he has large investments in real estate at Slatington and Slate- dale, including land in the state of Idaho. He was one of the moving spirits in reorganizing the Slatington Rolling Mill in 1911, which affords employment to 160 men, by assisting very materi- ally in the raising of $30,000 in two days.
In 1892, Mr. Zellner started the Slatington- Bangor Syndicate for the handling of slate ma- terials and since then this company has become the largest dealer in this special business. In the last five years its total transactions amounted to upwards of $300,000. In 1911, he became one of the organizers of the Big-Four Slate Com- pany, at Slatedale. He is one of the most exten- sive manufacturers of slate blackboards in the 'United States, and his product is shipped to all parts of the United States and Canada, even to the Phillippine Islands.
In 1870, Mr. Zellner was married and six children resulted from that union, as follows: William; Robert; James; 'Alverta, who died in infancy ; and Emma, married to Benjamin Roth, of Allentown. He and his family are members of the Reformed Church, of which he was an elder for a number of years and is now serving as one of its trustees, and when the church was remodeled, he acted as chairman of the building committee.
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