Biographies, beginning with Z, History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882 Transcribed by Sally Scarff and Marlene Chaney for the USGenWeb Archives. Submitted August 2000 by Roxanne Barth , IAGenWeb Allamakee County Coordinator. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** History of Clayton County Iowa 1882 Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1882 Reprinted by: Monona Historical Society, Monona, Iowa Reproduction by: Unigraphics, Inc., 1401 North Fares Ave, Evansville, Indiana 47711, 1975 Z Mallory Twp. -- D. M. Zearley, saloon keeper, Osterdock, was born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1815. In 1850 he came to Iowa and located a farm which he worked for many years. In 1839 he married Sarah Hunt, daugher of Jonas Hunt, a native of Pennsylvania. Bythis marriage there are six children--Jonas H. born 1840 married and living in Mallory Township; Anna (deceased); Matilda Jane, born in 1844, in Virginia; Allen, born 1846 9deceased); Mary Frances, born 1848, wife of Simon J. Jones, of Mallory Township; John J. born 1851. Mrs. Zearley is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Zearley is a member of the Masonic lodge. He votes the Democratic ticket. His father moved to Virginia, and lived about eleven years, where he and his wife died; he engaged in farming and milling there. Mr. Zearley has been farming in Clayton County about twenty years, teaching school winters, until his age obliged him to discontinue. He then sold his farm and is now engaged in running a temerance saloon in Osterdock. History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 926 Mallory Twp. -- John H. Zearley, one of the representative farmers of Mallory Township, was born in 1828, in Pennsylvania. His father, John Zearley, Sr. was likewise a native of the Keystone State, where he died; his mother Ann Zearley, nee Hixon, was born in Virginia. He received his education in his native State and in 1851 emigrated to Clayton County, settling upon a farm. He now owns a finely cultivated farm of 40 acres in sectin 5, Mallory Township. He was married in 1854 to Mary Hansel. Their union has been blessed with six children--Ida Ann, Sarah Adelia, John Jacob, William H., Louis A. and Hattie. Mr. Zearley has served as Deputy County Surveyor, and has held many of the township offices, having always been an able and efficient officer. In politics he is independent. History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 926 Jefferson Twp. -- Joseph Zimmerman, lumber dealer, Guttenberg, was born in Austria in 1836. He came to this country with a sister, when he was eighteen years of age. He lived in Dubuque until 1868, when he went to Cassville, Wis., where he was a partner of D. B. Stevens in the lumber trade. He came here in 1872, and purchased of Mr. Adam Goetz the steam saw-mill, which he now owns, an account of which will be found in the chapter on "Manufactures" in this work. His wife, Celia Vaight, was born in Prussia. They have six children—two sons and four daughters. History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 874