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Frank A. Ziegler
Frank A. Ziegler, Pennsylvania Railroad agent at Hanover, was born in Littlestown, Adams
County. Penn., February 27, 1844, and is a son of Charles H. and Margaret (Brothers)
Ziegler, of Adams County, and of German descent. His father, who died in 1879, had been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as collector of tolls on the Pennsylvania
Canal at Clark’s Ferry, and subsequently at Middletown, from the time the canal passed
into the hands of the Pennsylvania Railroad till within four years of his death. The last
two years he spent as bridge toll collector at Wrightsville. Frank A. is the eldest of
seven children, and grew up principally in his father’s office. At the age of fifteen
years he began learning telegraphy, and soon after occupied a place as operator in his
father’s office at Clark’s Ferry, but remained only six weeks, and went to Harrisburg,
where he was until August 22, 1863, when he enlisted in Company A, One Hundre!
d and Twenty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; he served nine months, and was
honorably discharged at Harrisburg. On his return he took his old position as operator in
his father’s office, which he kept until 1870, when he was transferred to Middletown, and
at the end of two years went to Alexandria, Va., where he was clerk in the freight office
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. After a few months he was appointed agent and operator at
Bowie, on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, which position he held for three years,
and then was removed to Baltimore City as clerk in the car record office of the Northern
Central Railroad. At the establishment of the Frederick division of that line he was
transferred to the superintendent’s office at York, and remained there from 1875 to 1879,
when he came to Hanover, where ha has since held the office of the agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. In July 1881, he, in company with D. P. McKeefer, established the
telephone at!
Hanover, but sold out to the Pennsylvania Telephone Company. In 1866
he was married, in Dauphin County, to Ellen Garman, of that county, and has had five
children: George S., Grace G., Carrie M., Mary C., and Carl E. The family are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Z. is a Mason, a member of the I.O.O.F., in which
latter he is a trustee, and a member of the G.A.R. In 1883 he was elected councilman of
his ward, but was defeated as chief burgess in 1884.
Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical
Editor