on 7/23/02 9:00 AM, alzieg(a)aol.net at alzieg(a)aol.net wrote:
This is what I have on George, b.7/3/1789, in Hanover PA d.8/27/1848
in
Duncannon, Perry Co. PA. he m. Elizabeth Critzman 4/10/1810. They had 2
issues, Charles H. b.1819 d.1879 and Hanna Maria b.1821, d.1825. He was son
of Frederick Emanual Ziegler b.b.1762 d.1854 in Gettysburg PA he m. 1. Juliana
Feiser. 2. Elizabeth Craig. This family is huge and is connected to the early
progenitor in York Co. PA
namely Georg Philip Ziegler who arrived in America in 1727.
Sorry I failed to record the source of the following, but it was a printed
biography. It refers to some of the the family above, however, there appear
to be name conflicts with the children listed for George and Elizabeth.
"George W. ZEIGLER, attorney at law, was born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
May 24, 1819, son of George and Gertrude Elizabeth (Chritzman) Zeigler.
George Zeigler was a hatter by occupation, and served his county many years
as Prothonotary.
He was born in Gettysburg and died in Dauphin county, where he had lived
some years, at the age of sixty-three years. His wife was a native of
Germany, lived to be seventy-five years old, and died in Butler county,
Pennsylvania, where she lived with one of her sons. His father was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, and himself a soldier in the war of 1812.
The subject of this sketch was educated at Gettysburg and learned the
printing business on the old Gettysburg Compiler. When yet a young man he
joined his brother at Butler in the printing business, and then began the
study of law. At the age of twenty-two years he was admitted to the bar, and
practiced law two years afterwards in Butler. From there he went to
Jefferson county, where he built up an extensive practice, remained fifteen
years, and left on account of his health. After two years practice at
Selinsgrove he came to Sunbury in the fall of 1864. Here his ability as a
lawyer was readily recognized, and he has long occupied a high position in
the profession. He has been thrice a member of the legislature, in the
sessions of 1854-55 and 1861. He has always been a Democrat and his advocacy
of the principles of that party have until within the past four or five
years been untiring and zealous.
Mr. Zeigler is truly the architect of his own fortune. The inheritor of
no riches, the recipient of no bounty other than the God-given qualities of
a correct mind and a sound body, his successes in life are scored to his
individual merit. The late Jacob Zeigler, for fifty years a conspicuous
factor in Pennsylvania Politics and whose life forms a part of this great
State's history, was the elder brother of our subject. Mr. Zeigler was
married in Butler, December 27, 1838, to Mary A. McQuistion, and the six
children born to them are: Isabella, Mrs. George W. Keefer; Joseph,
superintendent of the Adirondacks railroad; Gertrude E., Mrs. P. P. Smith;
J. Walter; George, who died in 1860 aged thirteen years, and Edgar, who died
in infancy. Mrs. Zeigler died, September 5, 1889, aged sixty-nine years,
eleven months, and five days. Mr. Zeigler is a member of the Presbyterian
church and a Freemason."
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Submitted by Brad Ziegler
Union, MO.