Henry Ziegler (1816 - 1898)

When Henry Ziegler was born on August 19, 1816, in Venango, Pennsylvania, his father, Jacob, was 24 and his mother, Catharine, was 17. ^[1]He married Eliza App on May 19, 1844, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. In 1860, Henry, age 43 and Eliza was residing at Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania, ^[2] In 1870, Henry, age and Eliza were stil lresiding at Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania, ^[3]He died on November 26, 1898, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, having lived a long life of 82 years, and was buried there.^[4][5]

Dr. Henry Ziegler DD.

He was born near Old Fort in Center County, August 19, 1816, the son of an impoverished, German American farmer, sometime blacksmith, whose successive moves through rural Pennsylvania failed to bring him much success. In 1830 the family settled in Venango County in northwestern Pennsylvania where Henry Ziegler worked, clearing forests, chopping wood, forging iron tools, and thereby helping to provide for his family. Baptized when he was a child, Ziegler's youth was typical of those living rugged lives in rural America in the first half of the nineteenth century. Religious excitement was a "sometime thing," depending on sporadic visits by missionary clergy. At the age of eighteen, after a walk of eight miles to the services of a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, Ziegler was converted and subsequently catechized by a Lutheran home missionary." After his conversion, Ziegler had a strong conviction that he was called to preach the gospel but he had virtually no resources to prepare for it. He turned to the Parent Education Society of the General Synod, which gave him $100 as one of its first beneficiaries. In 1835, Ziegler strapped his possessions on his back and walked over 150 miles to Gettysburg, where he enrolled in the Preparatory Department of Pennsylvania College. One year later he entered the college itself, and, although his studies were interrupted several times by the need to work and raise funds, Ziegler managed to graduate and moved on to the Gettysburg Seminary, from which he graduated in 1843." ^[6]

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1. ↑ Ancestry.com, Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 (Lehi, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), Ancestry.com, Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography; Volume: Vol. VI. Name: Henry Ziegler Birth Date: 19 Aug 1816 Birth Place: Old Fort, Centre co, Pennsylvania Occupation: Theologian. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61360&h=17174&indiv=try.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1182; Page: 595; Family History Library Film: 805182. Name: Henry Ziegler Age: 43 Birth Year: abt 1817 Gender: Male Birth Place: Pennsylvania Home in 1860: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania Post Office: Selinsgrove Dwelling Number: 1336 Family Number: 1364 Occupation: Professor Of Theology Real Estate Value: 1200 Personal Estate Value: 1500 Household Members: Name Age Henry Ziegler 43 Eliza Ziegler 40 Louisa Ziegler 15 Henrietta Ziegler 12 Harriet Ziegler 9 Lorina Ziegler 9 Herman Ziegler 7 John Ziegler 5 Ida Ziegler 3 John Vanlew 18 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7667&h=4968683&indiv=try.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1451; Page: 130A; Family History Library Film: 552950. Name: Henry Leigler [Henry Ziegler] Age in 1870: 53 Birth Year: abt 1817 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Dwelling Number: 156 Home in 1870: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Selinsgrove Occupation: Minister Of The Gos Male Citizen over 21: Y Personal Estate Value: 3200 Real Estate Value: 5000 Inferred Spouse: Eliza Leigler Inferred Children: H J Leigler H N Leigler Household Members: Name Age Henry Leigler 53 Eliza Leigler 50 H J Leigler 22 H N Leigler 19 A L G Leigler 19 A H L Leigler 17 J A M Leigler 15 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7163&h=6500691&indiv=try.
4. ↑ Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com, Record for Rev Henry Ziegler Gender: Male Birth Date: 19 Aug 1816 Birth Place: Pennsylvania, United States of America Death Date:26 Nov 1898 Death Place:Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States of America Cemetery: Old Lutheran Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. . http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=24584041&indiv=try. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60991772/henry-ziegler
5. ↑ Newspapers.com - The Philadelphia Inquirer - 27 Nov 1898 - Page 6 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 Nov 1898), www.newspapers.com, Obituary for Henry Ziegler (Aged 83) 27 Nov 1898. Name: Henry Ziegler Gender: Male Death Age: 83 Birth Date: 19 Aug 1816 Birth Place: Old Fort, Centre county . Residence Place: Susquehanna . Death Date: 26 Nov 1898 Burial Date: 30 Nov Obituary Date: 27 Nov 1898 Obituary Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Child: A. H. F. Ziegler J. B. Shoup G. W. Fortney Hattie. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52238549/obituary-for-henry-ziegler-aged-83/?xid=637.

   Obituary of Henry Ziegler.

6. ↑ Susquehanna University, 1858-2000: A Goodly Heritage Donald D. Housley Susquehanna University Press, 2007 - Education - 607 pages (page 37)

• Online Resource, The Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States: History, 1867-1917 Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States Telegraph Company, Art department, printers, 1917 - Lutherans - 340 pages . Page 56 Portrait of Henry Ziegler DD Circa 1867 https://is.gd/JeWUqV
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