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BIOGRAPHIES
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Commemorative Biographical Records
of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1896
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ALBERT
ZIPFEL, mill owner and one of the well-known
business men of Rocky Ridge, Benton township, Ottawa
county, is a native of Germany, born Sept. 27, 1857, son
of Lawrence Zipfel. When about four years
of age our subject came to America with his father, who
settled at Port Clinton,, Ottawa Co., Ohio, and engaged
in the boot and shoe business, following same for
several years, when he sold out and purchased a farm
near Oak Harbor. After farming for some time he
sold his place and settled in Oak Harbor, where he died
in the spring of 1895.
During the first nine yeas of his life Albert Zipfel
obtained what education he could, and at the early age
of nine he went out into the world to earn a livelihood
for himself, commencing work in a shingle mill in Oak
Harbor, where he labored some twelve years. On
July 8, 1879, he was married to Miss Amanda A.
Fountain, of Oak Harbor, and they shortly afterward
settled in Rocky Ridge, where he was employed as foreman
in the stave factory of Bopst & Bosh, a position
he held for eleven years. In 1889 Mr. Zipfel
purchased an elevator and feed mill of Mr. Bopst
at Rocky Ridge, in 1890 adding to the mill a sawmill;
and he has since been engaged in lumber sawing and feed
grinding. The business is prospering, and the mill
is busy the entire year. For several years Mr.
Zipfel has been village councilman in Rocky Ridge;
he is greatly interested in the improvement of the
public schools of he place, and endeavors to have them
the best possible. His business, which is
constantly increasing, demands his strict personal
attention, and he may always be found at the mill,
attending very carefully to every detail; this surely is
the only way to success.
Mr. Zipfel was married July 8, 1879, to Miss
Amanda A. Fountain, who was born Oct. 30, 1857, near
Port Clinton, where she received her early education,
completing it in the schools of Oak Harbor. Her
parents were Alexander and Amy (Sampson)
Fountain, the father born July 4, 1829, in Sandusky
county, where he lived his entire life, save the one
hundred days he served in the war of the Rebellion.
He died in 1876. Mrs. Zipfel's grandfather,
Alexander Fountain, Sr., was born in Michigan.
Her paternal great-grandfather was of French descent.
Mrs. Zipfel's mother, Mrs. Amy Fountain,
was born in Port Clinton, May 11, 1837, and when eight
years of age removed with her parents to Chicago, where
they remained for three years. Her father, Joel
Sampson, then entered the Mexican war, and died of
cholera near the Gulf of Mexico. He was born in
Vermont in 1807. Mrs. Zipfel's maternal
great-grandfather was of French descent, born early in
the eighteenth century, and served in the French and
Indian war, 1757-1763.
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 562 |
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