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A.
J. Zahniser
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biography
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A. J. ZAHNISER,
farmer, post-office North’s Mills, was born July 27, 1818, in Mercer
County, to William, born in Lancaster County, Penn., who came to Mercer
County, and subsequently married Eleanor Statler, a native of the same
county. She came to Allegheny County with her parents, Rudolph and
Barbara (Scroggs) Statler. There she was married to William Zahniser,
and settled with him in what was then Cool Spring. He died May 7, 1856,
and she March 17, 1852. Their children were: J. L., A; J., Michael, W.
N., Katharine, Valentine, Bithynia and R. M. J. The father of our
subject was in the War of 1812, and made several trips to Erie and Fort
Meigs. A. J. Zahniser was educated in a log school-house, with split
puncheon floors, greased paper windows, open end fire-place and log or
split puncheon seats. He worked on the farm till he was twenty years of
age. He then taught school in the winter seasons, and worked on farms in
the summer, for a time. He afterward worked in a still-house making
whisky in the winter, and wooded plows in the summer, for three years.
He bought 105 acres of land in 1842, known as the Warden farm, and now
owns 185 acres. He then went to improving his farm, and has continued on
it to the present time. He was married in 1848 to Nancy J. Hosack,
daughter of Col. Thomas Hosack, and by her had one child, who died in
1851. Its mother died the same year. He was never married again, his
sister, Mrs. James J. Hosack, having kept house for him since. She has
three children: Eleanor, Thomas and W. J. Our subject has filled all the
important offices of the township, and has filled other poets of trust.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1019
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