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Source: 
Past & Present History of Wyandot County, Ohio - Illustrated

Vol. II
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1913

GEORGE W. ZEITER, a highly respected citizen and successful business man of Wyandot county, has for the pat decade been engaged in the sale of agricultural implements and farm machinery at Upper Sandusky.  His birth occurred at New Washington, Crawford county, Ohio, on the 18th of August, 1856, his parents being George and Katherine (Rapp) Zeiter, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Pennsylvania. George Zeiter, who became a resident of Crawford county, Ohio, when still but a boy, worked at the carpenter's trade throughout his active business career and passed away in 1863.  His widow makes her home in Eden township, Wyandot county, and is now seventy-six years of age, her natal day being Feb. 1, 1837.  They had four children, namely: George W., Frank, Sophia and Mary. Our subject is the only surviving member of the family, the others passing away in early life.
     In the acquirement of an education George W. Zeiter, attended the common schools until twenty-one years of age and subsequently worked as a farm hand by the month for nine years.  During the following six years he operated a rented farm in Tymochtee township and on the expiration of that period took up his abode in Sycamore, Ohio, where he worked in an implement store for eight years.  In 1903 he came to Upper Sandusky and embarked in business as an implement dealer on his own account, having since built up a gratifying patronage in this connection.  His stock of farm machinery and agricultural implements is valued at more than three thousand dollars.  He is likewise a stockholder in the Buckeye Foundry & Manufacturing Company, and also in the Commercial National Bank.
     On the 15th of Feb., 1883, at Upper Sandusky, Mr. Zeiter was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Ekleberry, a daughter of Levi and Barbara (Hufford) Ekleberry, of Tymochtee township, and where the former was active for a number of years as a farmer and veterinary surgeon.
     Politically Mr. Zeiter is an independent democrat, while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias of Sycamore and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Upper Sandusky.  He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce.  Though not a member, he attends the services of the Methodist church and lives a consistent Christian life.  Both he and his wife are widely and favorably known throughout the community, having won the unqualified confidence and regard of all with whom they have come in contact through-out the period of their residence here.
~ Page 336 - Source:  Past & Present History of Wyandot County, Ohio - Illustrated - Vol. II - Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1913

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