|
biography
John
Zahniser
died
in 1900
and
is buried in Bethany Cemetery in Lake Township |
|
JOHN
ZAHNISER,
farmer, post-office North’s Mills, is a son of Michael
and Mary (Mourer) Zahniser. Mathias Zahniser, the grandfather of
our subject, was a native of Germany, and immigrated to America and
settled in Lancaster County. From 1789 until 1797 he lived near
Pittsburgh, when he came to this county and located on a tract of land in
what is now Lake Township. His children were Mathias,
Michael, John, Valentine, William, Jacob, David and Mary, all of
whom are dead. Michael, the father of our
subject, was born in Lancaster County in 1777, and came to this county
with his parents, and located on a tract of land in what is now Lake
Township, where he lived until his death in 1852. He was a soldier in the
War of 1812, and a member of the Whig party, and afterward of the
Republican party, and a member of the Presbyterian Church of Cool Spring
Township. His widow lived to be ninety-three years old, and died in 1876.
They reared six children: Mary, Mrs. John Condit,
and William, are deceased; the four living are Jacob,
of Jackson Township; our subject; David, of
Lake Township, and Catherine, Mrs. William North, of
Cool Spring Township. Our subject was born on the homestead in Lake
Township, May 25, 1813, and received his education at the log school-house
of that period, and has always been engaged in farming, locating on his
present farm in 1850. In 1855 he married Susanna,
daughter of John Runkle, of Fairview
Township, Franklin County, and has one living child,
Michael M., who lives on the homestead with our subject, and
married Caroline, daughter of Albert
Pool, of Lake Township, and has one child,
Zella M. Our subject has held the offices of school director,
supervisor, etc., of the township, and justice of the peace since 1851. He
is one of the directors in the Sandy Lake Bank, votes the Republican
ticket, and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, page 1007
|
