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Source:
History of Highland
County, Ohio
by Rev. J. W. Klise -
Publ. Madison,
Wis.,
Northwestern Historical Association
1902
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ZINK FAMILY.
The Zink family, long and favorably known in
Highland, had representation here when the county
was little more than an unbroken wilderness, and the
now beautiful city of Hillsboro a scrawny village of
stumps and log cabins. Enoch Zink, born
in Pennsylvania in 1784, son of John and
Elizabeth Zink, was married in 1805 to Mary,
daughter of John and Mary (Penn) Foster, and
four years later migrated to Ohio with his wife and
two sons. After a weary journey they arrived
in Highland county in the fall of 1809, but the
prospects were not reassuring. At that time
hardly a beginning had been made in clearing the
heavy forest growth characteristic of that
part of Ohio. Here and there was a "patch" dug
with infinite pains of the heart of the forest and
in the center a log cabin with a lot of "towhead"
urchins playing around it. Now and then there
were a few small fields, but there were as yet
practically no roads and accommodations of all kinds
were of the crudest character. The embryonic
city of Hillsboro was little more than a forest
clearing, plenteously sprinkled with black stumps
interspersed at intervals with crude cabins and the
main street a prolonged mudhold, which had to be
navigated rather than walked across. But
Enoch Zink was possessed of the true
pioneer spirit, not to be intimidated by ordinary
difficulties, so he bought some land and set
manfully to work to carve a home out of the
forbidding wilderness. The place he selected
was about four miles northwest of Hillsboro and
there he reared his large family, eventually evolved
a good farm and in due course passed away from the
scenes of earth. His two older sons, John
and Samuel, were born in Pennsylvania and
after the arrival in Ohio the family was increased
by eight more births, named in order Elizabeth,
David K., Sarah A., Thomas F., Eli, Maria P.,
Milton P. and Wilson C., all of whom grew
to maturity and fulfilled their duties as
intelligent, worthy and industrious Christian men
and women. Only two of this family of ten
children are now living. Thomas F.,
fourth of those born in Ohio, was for many years a
resident of Hillsboro, but is now living at
Columbus. Milton P. Zink, next to the
youngest of the children, has for fifty-two years
been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church
and member of the Cincinnati conference, but since
1889 has been retired from active service and a
permanent resident of Hillsboro. He was
married in 1855 to Mary J., daughter of
John S. Beasley and grand-daughter of Gen.
Nathaniel Beasley, who was appointed by the
commissioners to survey Highland county and locate
the county seat. Posey B. Zink, son of
Milton P. and Mary (Beasley) Zink, was born in
Hamersville, Brown county, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1861, and
was graduated at the Hillsboro high school in 1882.
For some years after leaving school, he clerked for
the wholesale grocery houses of Scott & Roads
and McKeehan & Hiestand, but in 1890 opened
business as a retail grocer on his own account.
In 1898 he removed to his present location at the
corner of High and Walnut streets, where he has a
double front, and in addition to a full line of
groceries keeps novelties and queensware. Oct.
3, 1894, Mr. Zink was married to Sarah E.,
daughter of Martin and Nancy McClure,
one of the prominent families of Highland county,
who are sketched at some length on another page of
this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Posey B. Zink
have one daughter, Helen Beasley, who was
born Mar. 19, 1898.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
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