H.
C. ZEIGLER, oil
producer and stock raiser, post-office Sandy Lake, was born November 28, 1847,
in Trumbull County, Ohio. His parents, Elias and Elizabeth
(Misner) Zeigler, had the following children: Mary
M., H. C., J. L. and Emma C. After the death of the father, the mother
was married to W. B. Smith, by whom she had six
children. The father was a carder and spinner, and at one time was interested in
the woolen mills at Sharon.
H.
C. Zeigler received his education in the common schools, mostly in Mercer
County, whither he moved when a small boy. He was reared principally in West
Middlesex, and the first business he did for himself was “the book agency.”
In this he was quite successful, and later engaged in a hotel at Foxburg,
Clarion County. He also conducted a livery business in connection with his
hotel. While thus employed he began to operate in the oil business in Butler
County, which he continued for four years. He held prominent positions in the
companies connected in the pipe line business. He engaged in the drug business
in Sandy Lake, in 1875, with DeFrance, for one
year. In 1877 he resumed oil producing, which he has since followed. He is
interested in this project in Venango, Butler, McKean and Warren Counties,
Penn., and Allegany County, N. Y. He has also an interest in Ohio and Indiana
oil fields. He is a member of a stock company at Sandy Lake, engaged in the
breeding of fine road and draft horses. He was married to Hattie
J. Perrine, daughter of Daniel Perrine. By
her he has two sons: Fred D. and Roy
A.
He is a member of the
K.of H., A.O.U.W., A.P.M., and he and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. In politics, he is a stanch Republican, and is one of the
self-made, representative young businessmen of Mercer County.
History of Mercer
County, 1888, pages 1070-1071.
