BIO:  John D. Ziegler, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 184

JOHN D. ZIEGLER, born in Shrewsbury Township, January 31, 1820, is a son of Michael and 
Magdalena (Dosch) Ziegler, being the third son and fifth child of a family of four sons and 
five daughters; was brought up on a farm, and educated in the subscription schools; began 
learning milling in Maryland at the age of twenty-one, and continued it for five years; was 
married January 31, 1847, in Manheim Township, to Mary A. Nace, daughter of John Nace.  They 
had nine children – two, George Luther and Julia A. are died:  Belinda, at home; Oliver C., 
miller and farmer in York County; Cecelia, wife of Chester B. Wentz, a merchant in Carroll 
County, Md.; Agnes, at home; Virginia, at home; John S., M. D., practicing at Melrose, Md., and 
Upton A., at home.  Mr. Ziegler and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.  His father died 
in 1858, aged sixty-eight, and his mother in 1847, aged fifty-nine years.  He served six years 
as school director in Shrewsbury Township; is a director in the Codorus & Manheim Fire 
Insurance Company, and was one of the charter members of the Shrewsbury Savings Institution.  
He purchased his present farm of 126 acres about 1855, to which he has added forty-nine acres.