TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIO: ZELLER, William H. (published 1925)
***************************************************************************
OHGENWEB NOTICE:  All distribution rights to this electronic data are
reserved by the submitter.  Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted
material will require the permission of the copyright owner.
***************************************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Gina Reasoner
AUPQ38A@prodigy.com 
February 15, 1999
***************************************************************************

HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 201

        WILLIAM H. ZELLER is secretary and treasurer of the Trumbull
Banking Company at Girard. This institution is the outgrowth of the Girard
Savings and Banking Company, organized in 1911. It was taken over by the
Trumbull Savings and Loan Company in February, 1917, and in 1918 the
Trumbull Banking Company was formed. Under the new management and with Mr.
Zeller as the chief executive officer, the resources of the business have
increased from about $75,000 to over one and a half million.
        Mr. Zeller was born at Girard, May 2, 1892. His father, George H.
Zeller, was born in Alsace, France, and was three years of age when his
parents came to the United States and settled at Girard. His father is a
painter and decorator, and one of the pioneer business men of Girard, where
he owns and operates a wall paper and paint store. The mother of George H.
Zeller was a native of Switzerland. George H. Zeller was reared and married
in Girard, and has successfully followed the business of painting and
decorating and is the leading contractor in that line in this community. He
is a republican, is past chancellor of Friendship Lodge, No. 65, Knights of
Pythias, and is one of this fraternity's most popular members. George H.
Zeller married Elmyra Bennett, who was born at  Wattsburg, Pennsylvania.
Five children were born to their marriage, William H. being the oldest.
Ray, who is not employed in the offices of the Carnegie Steel Company at
McDonald, Ohio, is the mayor of the village. He was a soldier for eight
months in the World war, being regimental sergeant major at Camp Jackson.
The younger children are: Anna, at home; Edwin Bennett, who is a graduate
of Oberlin College and prominent in Young Men's Christian Association and
church work at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is preparing to go to China in one
or two years for the Young Men's Christian Association; and Vernon, a
teller in the Trumbull Banking Company at Girard.
        William H. Zeller attended public school at Girard, and was one of
the first employes of the old Girard Savings and Banking Company in 1911,
starting as a messenger boy. He subsequently filled the positions of
bookkeeper, teller and assistant secretary, and was selected secretary and
treasurer upon the organization of the Trumbull Banking Company in 1918. He
also holds the office of manager of the Trumbull Savings and Loan Company,
the two institutions occupying the same banking building on Liberty Street.
The offices of Robert T. Izant and John W. Darr, vice presidents, and
William H. Zeller, secretary and treasurer. The banking company has capital
stock of $50,000, surplus and profits of $11,000, and deposits of $450,000.
The bank building has every modern facility for efficient service.
        Mr. Zeller is a republican in politics. He is a member of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church and has served as assistant superintendent of
the Sunday School. Like his father, he is prominent in the Knights of
Pythias, being a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 65, and has served several
years as master of finance. He is a charter member and former director of
the Girard Kiwanis Club, and is affiliated with Girard Lodge, No. 432,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Zeller is owner of considerable real
estate in Girard, including his bungalow home at the corner of Kline and
St. Clair streets. During the World war he was especially active in the
sale of Liberty Bonds, and supervised the activities as a result of which
his bank had the highest average sales in the county for Liberty Bonds and
War Savings Stamps.
        Mr. Zeller married at Girard, September 1, 1914, Miss Hilda
Muthert, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth Muthert, residents of Fort
Recovery, Ohio, where her father is a retired farmer. Mrs. Zeller finished
her education in two of the best known of Ohio colleges, Oxford College for
Women and Wooster University. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Zeller; Ruth, who died at the age of one year, and Jean, born February 23,
1918.


==== Maggie_Ohio Mailing List ====