BIO:  WILLIAM S. ZEIGLER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 643-644
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    WILLIAM S. ZEIGLER, one of the prominent farmers and highly respected
  citizens of Southampton township, near Middle Spring, Cumberland county, was
  born Oct. 10, 1846, in Fannett township, Franklincounty, son of Isaac and
  Mary A. (Hammond) Zeigler.
    
    The Zeigler family is of German extraction. Michael Zeigler, grandfather of
  William S., made his home for some time at Stony Point, Franklin county, near
  Shippensburg, where he was engaged in farming, and then located at Newville,
  Cumberland county, where his son Henry operated a pottery for many years. He
  afterward went to Galesburg, Ill., where he died at the home of his son
  Isaac. He was one of the original members and leading officials of the Church
  of God at Shippensburg. The children of Michael Zeigler were: William, Isaac,
  Henry, Michael, Mrs. Susan Walters, Mrs. Mary Ann Kegerreis, Mrs. Elizabeth
  Rebuck, and Mrs. Rebecca D. Roush, the last named the only living daughter.
  Three of the sons, Isaac, Michael and William, followed the trade of tinner,
  and were hardware merchants, the Zeigler family being somewhat noted in this
  respect. Michael's two sons are now tinners and hardware men. William had one
  son, who was also a tinner and hardware man. Mrs. Rebuck had a son, who became
  a tinner; Mrs. Kegerreis had a son and grandson engaged as tinners and
  hardware men; Mrs. Walters had two sons and grandsons, tinners in
  Shippensburg.
    
    Isaac Zeigler lived at Path Valley, Franklin county, working at his trade
  until 1856, and then made a trip through various States and Territories,
  finally locating at Galesburg, Ill. Here he became associated with James
  Andrews in a hardware business, and became a leading citizen of that place,
  where his death occurred in the fall of 1871, at the age of fifty-one years.
  In politics, he was a Republican, and in religious belief, he was a Baptist.
  In Path Valley Isaac Zeigler married Mary A., daughter of Lawrence and Mary
  A. (Skinner) Hammond, old set-
    
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  tlers of the valley. Lawrence Hammond was born in February, 1797, in Spring
  Run, was married to Mary A. Skinner March 16, 1818, and the next month
  settled on the farm at Spring Run, where they lived continuously until his
  death, April 6, 1883. He left his children property amounting to over
  $100,000. He was the father of fifteen children, of whom seven were living at
  the time of his death, as well as sixty-four grandchildren, 118
  great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren. Among his children
  were one pair of twins and one set of triplets, all of whom died in infancy.
  Mrs. Hammond lived to nurse five generations, her death occurring in the fall
  of 1887, on the old homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond most enjoyably celebrated
  their fiftieth (1868) and sixtieth (1878) marriage anniversaries. Mrs. Isaac
  Zeigler died in 1852. The children of Isaac and Mary A. Zeigler were: William
  S.; Mrs. Anna M. Griffith, of Galesburg, Ill.; and Jennie Lind, who died at
  Galesburg, in the fall of 1868, when but eighteen years of age.
    
    William S. Zeigler was educated in his native county. His mother dying when
  he was between six and seven years old, he was taken by his grandfather
  Hammond, who, as he says, reared him "to be a farmer and a Democrat." Like so
  many members of his family, he has often felt a strong inclination to be a
  tinner and hardware dealer. He farmed for his grandfather Hammond, for
  seventeen successive years, in Path Valley, until the spring of 1884. He then
  removed to Southampton township, where he owns three farms, and besides which
  he has valuable store property at Galesburg, under rental, and also the
  "Hotel Sherman," and other business properties in Shippensburg.
    
    Mr. Zeigler married (first) Hattie Rhodes, who died March 24, 1870, in Path
  Valley, leaving one child, Jennie Lind, who died March 24, 1871. Mr.
  Zeigler married (second) Rachel P. Hoch, and they have one daughter, Anna M.,
  who married Jacob H. Reber, superintendent of the Waynesboro public schools,
  and has one child, Helen V., born October 26, 1899. Mr. Zeigler is a Democrat
  and has held township offices, performing the duties to the satisfaction of
  the community.