Howard H. Zenor
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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Howard H. Zenor, one of the pioneer businessmen of Deer Lodge, 
Montana, was born in Indiana, January 27, 1843. Mr.Zenor is of 
German descent. Some of his ancestors came from Germany to this 
country at an early day, settled in Pennsylvania and were 
prominently identified with the early history of that state. 
Elijah Zenor, the father of oursubject, was born there in 
1818. When a young man he emigrated to Indiana, being among 
the pioneer settlers of the Hoosier State and there he was 
subsequently married to Elizabeth Rose, a native of east 
Tennessee. They had a family of six children, all now 
living except one, and Howard H. being the oldest. Both 
father and mother were devoted members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and by occupation he was a carpenter and 
cabinetmaker. He died in the fortyeighth year of his age 
and she was thirty-five at the time of her death.Howard H. 
Zenor was educated at Bowling Green, Indiana. He was 
eighteen at the time the Civil War burst upon thecountry, 
and in answer to the President's first call for volunteers 
he enlisted in April 1861 in Company F, Fourteenth Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry and was in one of the first three 
regiments that left the state to go to the front. At 
the battle of Winchester, Virginia, he received a 
gunshot wound in the leg that caused him to go on 
crutches for fifteen months. After that he went with 
the army to New Orleans in the capacity of suttler's clerk
and continued thus occupied until the close of the war.
After the war, Mr. Zenor came up the Missouri River to 
Montana and landed at Fort Benton, June 2, 1867. He spent 
a short time at Helena and from there came to Deer Lodge 
where he was soon afterward appointed Deputy County Clerk.
Later he served a year and a half as clerk of the Probate 
Court and at the end of that time was appointed County 
Clerk and Recorder, which office he filled two years. 
He then engaged in placer mining at Uncle Ben's gulch in
Deer Lodge County and continued mining three years, his 
labor being attended with small returns. His next venture
was in the hardware business at Deer Lodge, in 
partnership with R.T. Kennon. That was in 1873. 
They continued in business together until 1886, at 
which time Mr. Kennon retired and M.W. Trask took 
his place in the firm, thename being changed to that 
of Zonor and Trask. This firm is still doing a most 
successful business. To Mr. Zenorbelongs the distinction 
of having been in the hardware business here longer 
than any other man in the city. They own the building 
in which their store is located. Like most of the 
prominent and successful businessmen of Montana,Mr. 
Zenor has from time to time made investments in 
mining property and is now the owner of various 
valuable quartzmines.He was married February 16, 
1873 to Helen M. Witter, a native of Vermont, and 
they have one child, Howard M., born in Deer Lodge 
and now attending school in the East. The comfortable 
and attractive residence he and his family occupy was 
built by him in 1881.

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