Ware-Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Zeigler, Robert Fritz 1889 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 948-950

   ROBERT FRITZ ZEIGLER. Talented, enterprising, and progressive, Prof. Robert
Fritz Zeigler is one of the more successful of the younger generation of
educators in Ware county, as proprietor of Waycross Business College, at
Waycross, helping many a young Georgian fit himself for a career of usefulness
in industrial, business and professional fields. A native of South Carolina, he
was born August 21, 1889, in Orangeburg county, where his father, Jesse
Littleton Zeigler, was also born. His grandfather, George Josiah Zeigler, a
life-long farmer in South Carolina, was a son of George John Zeigler, who was
born in Germany. He married Caroline Narcissus Averheart, who was the daughter
of John Averheart, who came from Ireland during the Revolutionary war.

   Brought up and educated in Orangeburg county, South Carolina, Jesse Littleton
Zeigler was well drilled in agricultural pursuits as a boy, and as a young man,
worked for several years in a mercantile establishment. Subsequently forming a
partnership with Mr. P. J. Buyck, he became junior member of the firm of Buyck &
Zeigler, farmers, merchants and millers, whose mills were located in and around
Pine Grove township, at the same time being interested for awhile in a
mercantile establishment at Fort Motte, owning that store with his oldest son,
who had charge of it. The part of Orangeburg county in which he has lived for
many years has been detached from that county, and now forms a part of Calhoun
county, which he served as supervisor during the years 1909-12 inclusive.

   Mr. Jesse Littleton Zeigler has been twice married. He married first Mary
Fredonia Gaffney, who was born in Richland county, South Carolina, a daughter of
William M. and Alice Euphenia Gaffney. She died in February 1904, leaving eight
children, as follows:,. Jesse McLennan, Alice Euphenia, Ida Lee, Noland
Theobald, Robert Fritz, Euna Fredonia, Jorene Buyck and George Josiah. Jorene
Buyck and George Josiah are now attending Orangeburg College, Orangeburg, S. C.
Jesse M. and Noland T.,who was a teacher for a few years, were engaged in the
motor business for a short while at Orangeburg, after which Jesse M. accepted a
position, which he now holds, with the International Har-. vester Company, as
salesman and demonstrator. Noland T. is at present a traveling auditor, making
Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters. Jesse M. married Maude Paulling Carroll, and
they have three children, Sally Fredonia, Maude Carroll, and Myrtle May. Mr. J.
L. Zeigler married for his second wife, in 1906, Lillian 0. Jones, and they have
three children, Capers Hayne, Jennie Lorene, and William Klauber.

   Growing to manhood in Orangeburg county, South Carolina, Robert Fritz Zeigler
was educated in the public and academical schools, later entering the Southern
Business College, then at Orangeburg, for the study of book keeping and
phonography. Under the instruction of Prof. A. H. White, a master penman and
teacher of business science, he advanced rapidly, displaying unusual skill and
ability. Recognizing in Mr. Zeigler those qualities that make a successful
teacher, Prof. White organized the Orangeburg Business College, and offered him
a position in the Shorthand Department, which he accepted and later became
Principal of that department, which position he held for about two years. With
the desire to better qualify himself, he took advantage of the home course
offered to teachers of Pernin's Universal Phonography, by the Pernin Shorthand
Institute, Detroit, Michigan.

   Going then to Columbus, Georgia, he continued as a teacher there for a short
time, when, having an opportunity to enter upon a broader sphere of action, he
came to Waycross to assume charge of the Waycross Business College, which was
then, in March 1908, owned by Benjamin J. Ferguson. Four months later, in July,
1908, Prof. Zeigler purchased the school from Mr. Ferguson, which he has since
conducted with marked success. This institution is one of the leading ones of
the kind in southeast Georgia, and under the efficient teaching of the professor
and his assistants, the many pupils who come from various parts of Georgia and
adjoining states, become familiar with typewriting, shorthand, bookkeeping,
business mathematics, penmanship, English correspondence, office practice, and
other branches of study used in the commercial world. As a penman, Mr. Zeigler
has reached a high state of perfection, and his pupils find that he possesses
not only the ability to write well himself, but that still rarer talent, which
enables him to impart his knowledge to others.

   True to the religious faith in which he was reared, Prof. Zeigler united with
the Baptist church, and is now a deacon in the First Baptist church of Waycross,
and the superintendent of its Sunday school.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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