HOWARD H. ZIGLER.  A successful business man and well-known citizen of Columbus is Mr. Howard H. Zigler, secretary of the Model Big Four Laundering Company.
     Mr. Zigler is a native of this city, having been born on Dec. 27, 1864, his parents being James M. and Margaret (Goodman) Zigler.  His father was chief bookkeeper  for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and a gentleman held high in the estimation of hte community of which he was a useful member.  There were but two in the family, both sons, Edward Wade Zigler who is connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburg, Pa., and Howard H. Zigler, the subject of this sketch.
     The latter was educated in the public schools of Columbus, and while attending school in the day time, devoted the evenings to learning the telegraph operators' art.  At the age of fifteen he had become an expert operator, and he secured employment in the Columbus office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and remained there for two years, when he was offered and accepted a position in the Cincinnati office of the Associated press.  At the expiration of six months he returned to Columbus and became night telegraph operator for the Ohio State Journal.  After receiving dispatches for that paper for five years, a flattering offer was made him by the United Press Association.  He engaged with them and became their representative in Columbus, which important position he held for nine years.  Mr. Zigler was the first operator in Columbus to take telegraph messages direct from the wire and typewrite the same, in fact, reading the communications of the clicking keys is as easy to Mr. Zigler as reading a newspaper.  In 1893 he resigned this position to undertake special newspaper work on the road for some of hte leading newspapers of the country, and he continued in this capacity until 1895, when he gave up traveling work and associated himself with Mr. E. J. Durham, and together they conducted the Model Steam Laundry, under the firm name of Durham & Zigler, at Nos. 37-39-41 East Town street.*  On January 1, 1900, a stock company was formed, the object embracing the consolidation of the Model and Big Four Laundries, and the Model Big Four Laundering Company, with headquarters in the Hartman building**, corner Main and Fourth streets.  The plant is the best equipped in the state, over seventy hands are employed and the finest work is turned out.  Mr. Zigler is the secretary of this company.
     In 1893 Mr. Zigler was elected president of the Inter-State Baseball Association, and served in that capacity until 1899.  At present he is secretary of the Columbus Launderers' club, secretary of the Hub Board of Trade and member of the Knights of Pythias.  Politically he is a Republican.
     On Dec. 31, 1895, Mr. Zigler was married to Miss Ella Alice-Patton, and they had one child, Raymond Patton Zigler.
Source:  Franklin County at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century - Compiled and Published by the Historical Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio - Page
* Building has since been torn down.
** Picture of Hartman building from Google Maps.