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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Past & Present History of Wyandot County, Ohio -
Illustrated
Vol. II
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1913
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GEORGE W. ZEITER, a
highly respected citizen and successful business man of Wyandot
county, has for the pat decade been engaged in the sale of
agricultural implements and farm machinery at Upper Sandusky.
His birth occurred at New Washington, Crawford county, Ohio, on the
18th of August, 1856, his parents being George and Katherine
(Rapp) Zeiter, the former a native of Germany and the latter of
Pennsylvania. George Zeiter, who became a resident of
Crawford county, Ohio, when still but a boy, worked at the
carpenter's trade throughout his active business career and passed
away in 1863. His widow makes her home in Eden township,
Wyandot county, and is now seventy-six years of age, her natal day
being Feb. 1, 1837. They had four children, namely: George
W., Frank, Sophia and Mary. Our subject is the
only surviving member of the family, the others passing away in
early life.
In the acquirement of an education George W. Zeiter,
attended the common schools until twenty-one years of age and
subsequently worked as a farm hand by the month for nine years.
During the following six years he operated a rented farm in
Tymochtee township and on the expiration of that period took up his
abode in Sycamore, Ohio, where he worked in an implement store for
eight years. In 1903 he came to Upper Sandusky and embarked in
business as an implement dealer on his own account, having since
built up a gratifying patronage in this connection. His stock
of farm machinery and agricultural implements is valued at more than
three thousand dollars. He is likewise a stockholder in the
Buckeye Foundry & Manufacturing Company, and also in the Commercial
National Bank.
On the 15th of Feb., 1883, at Upper Sandusky, Mr.
Zeiter was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Ekleberry,
a daughter of Levi and Barbara (Hufford) Ekleberry, of
Tymochtee township, and where the former was active for a number of
years as a farmer and veterinary surgeon.
Politically Mr. Zeiter is an independent
democrat, while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of
Pythias of Sycamore and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
Upper Sandusky. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce.
Though not a member, he attends the services of the Methodist church
and lives a consistent Christian life. Both he and his wife
are widely and favorably known throughout the community, having won
the unqualified confidence and regard of all with whom they have
come in contact through-out the period of their residence here.
~ Page 336 - Source: Past & Present History of Wyandot County, Ohio -
Illustrated -
Vol. II -
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1913 |
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