Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Ziegenfuss, Oliver T.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Rockhill Township


   OLIVER T. ZIEGENFUSS hotel proprietor, P.O. Atlantic 
City.  John Ziegenfuss came from Germany to America over a 
hundred years ago.  He married Margaret Jeterley, whose 
parents came from Swabia, in Wurtemberg, Germany, over a 
century and a half ago.  They located in Bucks county, and 
erected buildings, part of which still stand, and are 
occupied by their descendants. Born to John and Margaret 
Ziegenfuss were three sons and two daughters, of whom 
Abraham was the oldest.  He married Marie Triewig, daughter 
of Andrew and Christiana (Opp) Triewig, of Bucks county.  
Two sons were the result of this union:  Dr. A. A. 
Ziegenfuss, now deceased, and for many years a practicing 
physician at Buck Mountain, in Luzerne county, Pa., and 
Oliver T.  These children were educated by a private tutor, 
and for three years were under the instruction of Dr. Lewis 
J. Brown, of Harvard college.  Mr. Ziegenfuss received a 
musical education, and for twenty-five years gave 
instruction in that art.  Giving up his profession, he 
engaged in the hotel business, and was for a time proprietor 
of the Clifton house at Buck Mountain, and later of the 
"Broadway" at Mauch Chunk.   He is now at the Norwood or 
Kentucky Avenue near the beach, Atlantic City.  In 1860 he 
married Sarah Thompson Bussier, daughter of Daniel De La 
Bussier, a Huguenot exile from France.  His wife died in New 
York city in 1865, leaving no issue.  Mr. Ziegenfuss spends 
his winters with his mother, now aged 83 years, also his 
cousin Mr. John Ziegenfuss, on the old homestead, which is 
known as the estate of "Rockwild," and which in the original 
deed is mentioned as the estate of Roxborough.  Mr. 
Ziegenfuss and his cousin are both democrats.  Among the 
heirlooms in possession of the family is a high old clock 
that has told the fleeing hours over a century and a 
quarter, and for one century has stood in one room.  It is 
still one of the best of timekeepers.