Bio of ZAHN, Frederick H. (b.1840 d.1915), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 522-525
FREDERICK H. ZAHN
Tor thirty years Frederick H. Zahn was connected with the commercial life of
Minneapolis, although in his later years he lived retired from business,
enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil. He was born near
Berlin, Germany, on the 25th of March, 1840, and was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Zahn, who crossed the Atlantic in the year of his birth, establishing
their home in Baltimore, Maryland, where they spent their remaining days.
Brought to the United States during his infancy, Frederick H. Zahn was reared
and educated in Baltimore. His father there engaged in the merchant tailoring
business and the son learned the business under the father's direction. In 1873
he removed to Springfield, Illinois, where he rented the old office of Abraham
Lincoln and in it conducted a merchant tailoring business, carrying on his
interests at that point for several years. On the 3d of November, 1883, he came
to Minneapolis, where he continued in the same line of business and his merchant
tailoring establishment soon became one of the best patronized interests of the
kind in the city. This he conducted for three decades, or until 1913, when he
retired, having acquired a substantial capital as the result of the many years
which he had devoted to the trade.
On the 25th of December, 1872, Mr. Zahn was united in marriage to Miss Ellen M.
Brown, a daughter of Josiah and Maria (Stebbins) Brown, the former born at West
Boylston, near Boston, Massachusetts, while the latter was a native of
Deer-field, that state. Mr. and Mrs. Zahn became the parents of a son and a
daughter, but the latter died in infancy. The former is Frank B. Zahn, a
resident of Minne­apolis, with office in the Globe building.
The military record of Frederick H. Zahn was one of which he had every reason to
be proud. He served as a soldier of the Civil war, becoming a private of
Com­pany D, Second Regiment of Maryland Infantry, and afterward a private in
Company F of the Thirteenth Regular Veteran Reserve Corps. He was wounded in
battle and carried a bullet imbedded below the heart the rest of his life. He
continued with the army throughout the four years of the long struggle, and
rejoicing in the victory which crowned the nation's starry banner, returned to
his home at the close of hostilities. He always gave his political allegiance to
the republican party, which was the defense of the Union in the dark days of the
Civil war and has always been the party of reform and progress. Mr. Zahn held
membership in the Episcopal church and passed away in that faith January 30,
1915-a good man gone to his reward. He had reached the seventy-fifth milestone
on life's journey and his entire record was one which commanded for him the
respect and confidence of all who knew him. He never sought to figure
prominently in public affairs but was always loyal to duty, honest and faithful
in every relation of life, and his record is, there­fore, one well worthy of
emulation.