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JOHN ZEIGLER.  Among the early pioneer farmers of Sandusky county was Martin Zeigler, a native of Hessen, Germany, born in the town of Grunberg on the 3d of April, 1795.  His wife, Catharine E. Kruder was born in the same place on the 23d of November, 1796.  With a family of five children, in June, 1832, they took passage in a sailing vessel from Bremen, and after a stormy voyage of seventy-two days arrived at Baltimore, Maryland. Here, Martin Zeigler was taken with the cholera, which was then raging in the city.  He escaped with his life, but with feeble health, which for some time prevented him from taking active measures for his family's support, and consequently reducing his capital to a considerable extent.  They removed to Zanesville, and remained there until 1835, when, having purchased a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of land in Riley township, four miles north-east of Fremont, they settled themselves permanently.  A stranger had determined upon the purchase of his land at the same time with Mr. Zeigler.  The former, with that intention, left Zanesville by state, for the Government land office at Bucyrus, on the same morning that the latter started on foot on the same errand.  The foot-traveler beat the stage by several hours, and accomplished his purpose before his disappointed competitor put in an appearance.  Martin Zeigler was a man of great energy and perseverance, of sterling honesty and uprightness of character.  He was of nervous disposition, showing this strongly in his conversation which he always carried on a a remarkably impressive, earnest and most excitable manner.  He died at his home July 24, 1867.  His wife died in Fremont, Feb. 3, 1879.  They reared a family of eight children, all of whom (with the exception of their oldest son, Henry, who was for twenty-five years one of the lading merchants in Fremont), carried on the occupation of farming. 
     John Zeigler, the subject of the engraving, was born at the residence of his parents, Martin and Catharine Zeigler, in Riley township, on the 15th of December, 1841.  In 1865 he married Mary Jacobs, and lived up to the date of his death on the homestead left vacant by his father's demise in 1867.  His death occurred in a violent manner on the 15th day of August, 1876.  While working in the field on teh morning of the last-mentioned date, he was kicked in the abdomen by a vicious horse, and died the same evening, at the age of thirty-four years, leaving a wife and four children.  He was an exemplary father and husband and a model farmer.  Through hard labor and ceaseless industry he had accumulated a small fortune, and had life been granted him, by the time he had reached middle age he would have been one of the wealthy farmers of that district, as he was then a representative man.  Honesty, frugality, and industry, are unfailing indicators of ultimate success.
Source: 1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 739.

Riley Twp. -
WILBUR G. ZEIGLER is the son of Henry Zeigler, formerly a prominent merchant and business man of Fremont, who, after the war, located in the South with his family, and returned a few years ago, bringing his son Wilbur with him to Fremont.
     Wilbur G. was born at Fremont, Ohio.  While in the South, he, though comparatively a young man, displayed unusual literary ability in his correspondence with various newspapers, which marked him for a literary career.  For some time he read law with Henry McKinney, now judge, in Cleveland, Ohio.  However, he came back to Fremont, and finished his legal studies in the office of Ralph P. & Horace S. Buckland.  He was admitted to practice under the lately established rules, in the supreme court at Columbus, in March, 1881.
     Mr. Zeigler was educated in the public schools of Fremont, graduating in the high school in the class of 1876.  On his admission to the Bar, Mr. Zeigler at once entered upon the practice of his profession and was received into partnership with the Bucklands, with whom he had finished his studies.  He is unmarried, but his future career is full of promise whether he shall devote himself exclusively to his profession, or take off into a literary career.
Source: 1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 386.

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