Biographical Sketch of Major Josiah Zink, Greene County, Missouri,
Campbell Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1822,
and where he spent his early life.  At the age of nineteen he learned
the cabinet maker's trade, and worked three years for $37.50 per year,
and clothed himself.  At the end of that time he had saved enough money
to buy a suit of "store clothes."  He then went into partnership with a
man in the cabinet business, and in about a year they were burned out
entirely and Mr. Zink was left without a dollar.  He then, by the help
of a friend, started in trade, and in two years was able to work five
journeymen.  His health failing in a few years, he engaged in the hotel
business until the war broke out.  He took an active part in recruiting
company E, 62nd Pennsylvania volunteers, and Company F, 103rd regiment,
and went into the last named as a private, and was promoted to the
captaincy of Company F.  In 1863 he was discharged for disability.  He
served in the McClellan campaign, and during the time he was in four-
teen engagements.  In the old State militia he held the rank of major.
He came to Greene county, Missouri, in 1866, and owns a good farm and 
devotes his time to farming and stock raising.  He was married January
14, 1847, to Miss Martha Simcox, of Venango county, Pennsylvania.  She
died March 29, 1880, and left six children, viz.: Maggie C., now Mrs.
Newell; Jefferson C., Laura E., now Mrs. Cowan, William S. T., Edward
K., and Marshall S.  The major is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
and a gentleman in every sense.

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