Mahoning-Trumbull County OhArchives Biographies.....Sanzenbacher, John  May 5 1827 - April 23 1919
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Author: History of Mahoning and Trumbull Co., Vol 2, p.36, H.Z. Williams
“JOHN SANZENBACHER AND FAMILY”

Mr. Sanzenbacher was born in the kingdom of Wurtemberg , Germany, May 5, 1827. 
His parents were Jacob and Barbara (Schuger) Sanzenbacher, both natives of 
Wurtemberg. Jacob Sanzenbacher was born August 1, 1799, and is still living, a 
resident of New Springfield, Mahoning county. Mrs. Barbara Sanzenbacher was 
born February 12, 1804, and died December 24, 1878. She was the mother of five 
sons and two daughters, but of this number only two children remain - John and 
his brother, Jacob. The latter resides in Southington, Trumbull county. John 
was the second child and the oldest son.

In 1833 he emigrated to the United States with his parents, and lived near 
Unity, Columbiana county, Ohio, until 1836, when the family moved to Beaver 
county, now Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. There his boyhood was passed upon a 
farm until August 19, 1844, at which date he was bound out to Mr. R. Fullerton 
for three years and six months to learn the trade of tanning and currying. At 
the end of this period he came to Mahoning county, and worked at his trade for 
William Moore, in Boardman, for ten months. He next went to New Middleton, in 
this county, where he worked about nine months, then returned to Boardman, and 
was employed by Mr. Moore for six months.

In the winter of 1849-50 he purchased of F.A. Brainard his tannery in 
Canfield. April 9, 1850, he came to Canfield, and commenced business with a 
capital of about $500, out of which he made a payment to Mr. Brainard of $40. 
Six hundred dollars was the price paid for the tannery.
December 24, 1850, having got a little start in his business and having 
concluded to take a wife, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Oswald, 
of Canfield township.

March 3, 1862, in company with Pierpont Edwards, he engaged in the drug and 
grocery business but continued to carry on tanning. About the year 1865 he 
formed a partnership with F. Krehl, of Girard, in the tanning and currying 
business. In 1867 he sold out to Mr. Krehl, and also disposed of his interest 
in the drug store. The same year he purchased a farm one mile east of 
Canfield, to which he moved June 20, 1867. In 1868 he erected a fine large 
barn and made other improvements upon the place.

Mr. Sanzenbacher began the manufacture of leather belting in 1865 and carried 
it on for one year in connection with his other business. In 1866 he quit 
tanning, and in the spring of 1867 disposed of his tannery and machinery. But 
in 1869 he again resumed the manufacture of belting, and October 20th of that 
year took P. Edwards as a partner under the firm name of J. Sanzenbacher & 
Co., which is still the style of the firm. During the summer of 1872 this firm 
erected a large building, where they still continue the business. From the 
time their new establishment was erected until the present they have been 
doing a large business both in tanning and in belt making.

Mr. Sanzenbacher is a man of quiet, social, and agreeable manners, and enjoys 
the highest esteem and confidence of the better portion of the community. He 
is regarded as friend of every worthy cause, and is never backward in matters 
of public interest.

Mrs. Sarah A. Sanzenbacher, the worthy helpmate and companion of the subject 
of this notice, was born in Canfield township, November 25, 1832. She is the 
youngest daughter of Charles and Sarah A. (Harding) Oswald, of Canfield 
township. Her father died September 20, 1862, in the fifty-eighth year of his 
age. Her mother is still living in her seventy-sixth year, and makes her home 
with Mr. Sanzenbacher’s family. Mrs. John Sanzenbacher is the youngest 
daughter of a family of three sons and three daughters. She has but one 
sister, living, Mrs. Amanda Mahnensmith, and no brothers.

To Mr. and Mrs. Sanzenbacher have been born six children, all of whom are 
living in Canfield. Following is the family record: Harriet Louisa born 
October 26, 1851; married March 31, 1870, to John Neff, of Canfield; has five 
children viz; Sadie, Ensign, Martin, Calvin, Rebecca Caroline, born August 30, 
1856; married Irvin Callahan May 20, 1875. Charles J., born August 25, 1860. 
John H., born December 16, 1864. David L., born November 11, 1869. Martin L., 
born July 14, 1871


Additional Comments:
Corrections to biography:
John's mother was Christina Barbara ZUCKER - not Schuger.
John was born in OberWeissach, OA Backnang, Wuerttemberg, Germany.
The biography omitted grandsonsons Cyrus and Roy Neff.
The F. Krehl referenced as a business patner was also John's brother in law.
Portraits of John and Sarah Sanzenbacher are between pages 36-37.

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