BIOGRAPHIES

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CENTENNIAL HISTORY of ERIE COUNTY, OHIO
By H. L. Peeke
President of The Firelands Historical Society
Publ. 1925

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W. F. Zimmerman

W. F. ZIMMERMAN - See article on The Third National Exchange Bank Source:  Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Published 1925 - Photo on Page 337

FREDERICK PAUL ZOLLINGER.  When death removed Frederick Paul Zollinger from our midst it took the oldest banker of Sandusky and one of the most successful financiers of the city.  He was born on July 10, 1858.  He was the son of Charles W. Zollinger, and Christina Smith Zollinger.  Charles W. Zollinger was born July 23, 1813 at Wiesbaden, Germany and was an infant at the time of the death of his father.      After his school life ended, he came to America and lived in Sandusky.  In the early thirties he opened a shop at the east side of Wayne street, just north of the corner of Washington Street, where he did business as a furniture maker and undertaker.  In 1860 he moved one b           lock north and there continued in active business until his death May 1867.  His wife, Christina Smith, was born in Baden, Germany and was the daughter of John and Maria Smith who were early settlers in Erie County.  Murs. Christina Zollinger was the mother of ten children and died in 1889.      The career of Fred Zollinger should be an inspiration to any ambitious boy.  He began as a messenger boy of the Third National Bank of Sandusky, in February, 1875, and has spent his life with that institution, serving as clerk, assistant cashier and cashier, and finally as president.      On September 6, 1862, he married Lucy H. McLouth who was the daughter of O. C. and Elizabeth DeWitt McLouth.  They have three children, Laura who married Edward Allstaetter, who have two children, Frederick L. and Elizabeth;  Marion, wife of Edward M. Koch and Paul, who died at the age of seventeen years.       Mr. Zollinger was a member of all of the degrees of the Masonic order, through and including the thirty-second.  He also belonged to the Mystic Shrine and the Knights of Pythias.  He was a member and an active worker in the Congressional Church, and for several years served as president of the board of Trustees.  He was a member of the Men's Club of that church.      Mr. Zollinger died on the 5th day of December, 1924, leaving behind him a large number of friends who regret his departure, and a gap in the movements of the community in which he had been so prominent for many years. Source: Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page 358

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