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Source: 
History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder,
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
1915

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  MRS. ADDIE LILLIAN (HALL) ZAHREND.  A well-known woman, of Putnam county, Ohio, who was born and reared in Allen county, is Mrs. Addie Lillian (Hall) Zahrend.  Her husband was a prominent businessman of this county for many years, and was engaged in the lumber business, at Leipsic, at the time of his death, in the spring of 1905.  He was a man of high character, a thorough Christian gentleman, a leader in all reform movements.  Since his death, Mrs. Zahrend has been devoting her time and attention to the rearing of the children who were left in her care.  She is a woman of refinement and culture, deeply devoted to her domestic life.
     Mrs. Addie Lillian (Hall) Zahrend was born at Gilboa, Putnam county, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1861.  She is a daughter of John F. and Nancy Jane (Hoagland) Hall.
     Mrs. Zahrend
spent her early childhood at Gilboa and, when five years of age, moved with her parents to Bluffton, Allen county, Ohio, where she was educated and lived until her marriage.  She was married, June 25, 1885, to JOHN CARL ZAHREND, and to this union six children were born, Martha Marie, Robert Franklin, Eugene Hall, John Carroll, Howard Lewis and Charlotte Lucil.  Martha Marie was married, Feb. 15, 1910, to Charles M. Harris, of Leipsic, Ohio, and now lives in Gore county, Kansas.  Mr. and Mrs. Harris have three sons, Harold, Eugene and Charles.  Robert Franklin married Margaret Cotter, of Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1909, and now lives in Wayne, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.  Eugene Hall was married, Dec. 17, 1913, to Elizabeth Doyle, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he now resides.  Eugene and his wife have one daughter, Dorothy Elizabeth.  The three younger children, John, Howard and Charlotte, are still living with her mother and attending the public schools of Leipsic.
     JOHN CARL ZAHREND, was born in Mecklenburg Schwerin, Germany, June 22, 1858, and was the son of Herman and Minnie (Henning) ZahrendHerman Zahrend was engaged in farming in Germany and in 1870, came to America and located at Liberty Center, Henry county.  Upon coming to this country, Herman Zahrend engaged in railroad work and later resumed farming near Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio.  A few years later he removed to a farm east of Napoleon and there lived the remainder of his life.  He was a member of the Dutch Reformed church and a stanch Republican in politics.  Herman Zahrend and wife were the parents of seven children, John, who became the husband of Addie Lillian Hall; Henry, who died at the age of twenty; a daughter, who died in her childhood; Frederick, of Napoleon, Ohio, who married Ella Fahringer, and has two sons, Earl and Frederic; Harmon, a farmer living near Liberty Center, Ohio, who married Clara Hudson, and has two children, Goldie and Ralph; Louise, who died Feb. 26, 1905, the wife of James Fahringer, who left her husband with three sons, Harry, Ora and Arthur; Charles, of Lima, Ohio, who married Minnie Freeman, and has three daughters, Vera, Mildred and a baby.
     John C. Zahrend attended the common schools of Liberty Center, Ohio, and later took a course in the Detroit business college.  He was first employed as a clerk in a general store at Bluffton, Ohio, and later engaged in the grocery business at that place, with Charles Day. He sold out his interests in the grocery store, a short time after his marriage, and moved to Lima, Ohio, in 1886, where he took a position in the shoe store.  A few yeas later he moved to Leipsic, Ohio, and became a partner of the O. E. Townsend Company, a company operating a large lumber and planing mill, in Leipsic.  The firm consisted of John Zahrend, his brother-in-law, O. E. Townsend, and the latter's father, I. M. Townsend.  Mr. Zahrend continued in this business until it was sold to the Robert Hixon Lumber Company, after which he was retained by the latter company as the manager of the plant.  He was also interested in the Peters Lumber Company, of Irwin, Kentucky.
     Mr. Zahrend was in active business in Leipsic until his death, Mar. 7, 1905.  He was held in high esteem by his business associates, and throughout the community where he had lived so many years.  He was a man of strict business integrity, and had a fine Christian character.  He was a loyal member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was interested in everything which pertained to its welfare.  He was a class leader, and a member of the official board of the Methodist church at Leipsic.  He was especially interested in temperance work.
     Since with death of her husband, Mrs. Zahrend makes her home in Leipsic, with her three unmarried children.  One of Mrs. Zahrend's uncles, on her mother's side, James Hoagland, died in his early twenties, while living at Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Before his death, he was elected to the state Senate of Indiana, but died before the Legislature convened.  He was said to be the youngest man who had been elected to the Indiana Senate up to that time.
Source:  History of Putnam County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 328
  CHRISTIAN ZIMMERLY

Source:  History of Putnam County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 516

  JOSEPH ZINK

Source:  History of Putnam County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1268

  ISAAC ZUERCHER

Source:  History of Putnam County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 451

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