BIO: Abram J. Zeigler, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER L. 

                           MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP. 

501 	MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP.

  ABRAM J. ZEIGLER, farmer, was born on the old Zeigler homestead, 
November 5, 1842.  His father, Abram Zeigler, Sr., was born in 
Montgomery County, and came to Cumberland County in 1801.  He settled 
on the farm not far from the North Mountains, in Middlesex Township, 
now occupied by our subject.  The father married Elizabeth Horner, of 
Cumberland County, and the son, in 1867, married Barbara Rebbert, of 
the same county.  The family consists of five children, all of whom are 
living on the homestead.  This farm was once a portion of a tract owned 
by one Kenney, an early Scotch-Irish pioneer.  From him it descended to 
the Zeigler family, the representatives of which now own a number of 
fine farms in the northern portion of Middlesex Township.