I want to thank you for opening the flood gates due to your e-mail on the Zieglers, I sold
several books on the Zieglers you mentioned. Thank You.
Allen
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George D. Ziegler
George D. Ziegler was born January 22, 1840 in Wrightsville, York
County, Penn., and is the eldest of eleven children born to George and Susan
(Delingler) Ziegler, natives of York County, and of German descent. When fifteen
years of age he began learning the tailoring trade, and followed it for eighteen
months; after that he worked in a saw mill until August 22, 1861, when he
enlisted at Wrightsville, Penn., Company I, Seventy-Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, under Col. J. M. Powers, and ways at Fort Wagner, and also
in the second attack on the same fort, where he was wounded in the left shoulder
by a piece of shell. He was then taken to New York; thence to Pittsburgh, Penn.,
where he remained until fit for duty. He next engaged in the campaign against
Hilton Head, at Butler’s Front, S.C., and Petersburgh, and was wounded May 7,
1864, in the left arm. He was discharged July 29, 1864, and on account of wounds
received in the army, is receiving a pensi!
on of $10 per month. April 7, 1864, he married Elizabeth Thompson. They had
thirteen children, of whom six are living: Mary, Flora, George, Robert, Charley
and Alide. Mrs. Ziegler is a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Thompson. Mr. Ziegler
is a Republican. He owns considerable property in Goldsboro, Penn., and is at
present a street commissioner.
Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John
Gibson, Historical Editor
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