BIO: Edward P. Zinn, 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 XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

441  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  CAPT. EDWARD P. ZINN, dentist, Mechanicsburg, was born in East 
Berlin, Adams Co., Penn., August 3, 1827, son of John and Anna Mary 
(Beitzel) Zinn, the former of whom, born near Dover, York County, a 
miller, shoe-maker and butcher by occupation, was a son of Jacob Zinn, 
of York County, Penn.  John and Anna Mary Zinn had thirteen children - 
seven sons and six daughters - two sons and three daughters now living, 
Edward P. being the fifth son and ninth child.  Our subject was some 
five years old when his parents moved to a farm near Dover, York 
County, and in 1840 he came to the vicinity of Churchtown, this county, 
where he farmed until 1843; then moved to Churchtown, and worked at 
shoe-making until 1846, in which year he went to New Bloomfield, Perry 
Co., Penn., where he opened a shop of his own.  He was there married, 
January 1, 1848, to Miss Caroline Sophia Klinepeter, who was born in 
New Bloomfield, Perry Co., Penn., daughter of Samuel Klinepeter.  She 
died January 1, 1852, the mother of two children:  One daughter, who 
died in infancy, and one son, William B., who died aged thirty-one 
years.  In 1853 Mr. Zinn went to Philadelphia, New York, and Savannah, 
Ga., traveling until the fall of 1853 when he located at Newburg, and 
worked at dentistry two years; then began practicing in Churchtown, 
where he remained until the fall of 1855, when he located in 
Mechanicsburg.  Mr. Zinn was here married, January 1, 1856, to Miss 
Margaret J. Pisle, a native of Hopewell Township, this county, a 
daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Lesher) Pisle.  Mr. and Mrs. Zinn have 
had five children (four now living): Anson B., born in Mechanicsburg, 
December 5, 1856, now proprietor of Zinn's bakery and confectionery; 
Ida E., born in Mechanicsburg November 18, 1860; Annie M., born in 
Mechanicsburg June 8, 1864, died June 5, 1874; Harry I., born in 
Mechanicsburg October 10, 1866, at present engaged in the bakery 
business; Minnie B., born in Mechanicsburg February 16, 1871.  Anson B. 
and his brother, Harry I., are members of P. O. S. of Washington Camp, 
No. 164, Mechanicsburg.  Edward P. Zinn is a member of Eureka Lodge, 
No. 302, A. Y. M., and Post No. 58, G. A. R., of Harrisburg, Penn.  In 
politics he is a Republican.  Mrs. Zinn and her daughter, Ida E., are 
members of the Lutheran Church.