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Biographies
Source:
Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and
Cleveland, Ohio
ILLUSTRATED
Publ. Chicago:
The Lewis Publishing Company
1894
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JOHN A. ZANGERLE,
one of the many members of the Cleveland bar, and a member of
the law firm of Thieme & Zangerle, of Nos. 618, 619 and
620 Society for Savings Building, was born at Hancock, Michigan,
Apr. 12, 1865. His parents were Adam and Marie (Ritter)
Zangerle, both natives of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany.
Adam Zangerle was a mason and contractor at Hancock,
Michigan, and in 1866 removed to Cleveland and engaged in the
wholesale liquor business on Ontario street, in which he is at
present engaged.
The gentleman whose name heads this brief outline was
reared in Cleveland and was educated in the public schools.
In passing though the course of the high school he stood fair in
rank and graduated president of his class. After leaving
school he engaged in mercantile life in the wholesale drug house
of Benton, Myers & Company, where he spent two
years. He next engaged in the music-printing business and
continued in it about two years. While engaged in that
line he desired to prepare himself for the legal profession, and
in order to secure necessary money he taught night school for
four years, during which period he was studying law with
Judges Burke and Ingersol. In January, 1891, he
was admitted to the bar and immediately went into the office of
Mr. Thieme, and a year later formed a partnership with
him.
He early conceived the idea that politics would be a
fruitful mode of advertising and bringing himself before the
people, and in April, 1891, he was elected as a Democrat from a
heavy Republican district, as a member of the Board of
Education, entering as the youngest member of the board.
Since that time he has been quite active and has been engaged
more or less in politics; is at present Chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee of the county, having been chosen
to that place in 1893. He has been chairman of various
political organizations and committees. He is also a
member of numerous social and athletic organizations, -
Cleveland Grays, Cleveland Gesaugverein, Social Turn Verein,
Lakeside Cycling Club, and other social and athletic
organizations.
 Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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LON ZEAGER,
of Rocky River hamlet, was born in Denmark, Jan. 13, 1859, where
he passed the early years of his life, coming to America about
the year 1873. He made a short stay in Cleveland and then
came to Rockport township, where he worked out by the month for
several years, and then rented a farm for eight years, carrying
on the business of gardening. He finally bought the farm
of forty-four acres where he now lives. It is mostly
improved. He was married in Rockport township, Jan. 17,
1884, to Miss Mina Knudson who was also a native of
Denmark. They have five children, namely: Julius, Emma,
Louis, Maria and Loura. Mr. Zeager was elected
one of the Trustees of Rocky River hamlet in the spring of 1893,
and was chosen President of the board, or Mayor.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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HON. AUGUSTUS ZEHRING
was born Aug. 11, 1846, at West Lebanon, Ohio. He attended
the common schools in Wayne, his native county, and then entered
Baldwin University at Berea, where he graduated in 1868.
Before entering this university he taught school, to earn the
means for defraying his expenses at the university. After
his graduation he again taught school.
In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and for eighteen months thereafter he was in
active service, and for the remainder of the war he was on
detached duty.
At the close of the war he came to Cleveland for the
purpose of studying law, and after reading law for a short time,
his finances failing him, he found it necessary to return to
school teaching, and taught or took charge of West Richfield
Academy for two years. He both taught school and worked on
a farm in order to gain funds with which to educate and prepare
himself for the profession of law. In 1873 he graduated at
the Ohio Law College, which was then at Cleveland, and was
admitted to the bar. Soon after his graduation in the law
he took charge of and settled up the large estate of a man named
Wilson. This required his time and attention till
1877, when he began what has been a successful career in the
practice of law. Subsequently was a candidate for Probate
Judge, but not by reason of his own solicitation. As a
lawyer Mr. Zehring has been very successful.
He has always been a Democrat in politics and his party
placed him upon the ticket and, though he was defeated, he made
a very creditable race, lowering considerably the usual
Republican majority. In the spring of 1892 he received the
unsolicited nomination for Director of Schools, under the
Federal plan of municipal government which had been inaugurated
in Cleveland, but he was again defeated by reason of the
weakness of his party.
In 1873 Judge Zehring was married to Miss
Eunice Walker, daughter of J. S. Walker of Wyoming
county, New York.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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