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.
Source: (History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 1070-1071)
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