BIO:  PETER & JOHN H. ZINN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 420-421
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    PETER ZINN, father of Mrs. Swarner, was born and raised in Lancaster
  county. About 1832 he came with his family to Dickinson township, Cumberland
  county, and located about seven miles from Carlisle, at a place called
  Mooredale. He married Elizabeth Kegerries, who was also born and raised in
  Lancaster county, and they became the parents of the following children:
  Mary, who married John King, who lives in Iowa, and has a family of five
  children; Amos, who was drowned at the age of eleven, by falling into a well,
  about two miles from home; John H., mentioned below; Elizabeth, who married
  Charles Feree, of near Williamson, Franklin county, and has two children,
  Harvey and Clemie; Catherine, born Jan. 21. 1843, in Dickinson township
  (where she was educated), who married George W. Swarner; and Frank, who is
  married and has one child, and who makes his home in Peoria, Illinois.
    
    REV. JOHN H. ZINN was born in Dickinson township, Cumberland county, Pa.,
  July 25, 1836. He was the second child and son born to his parents. At the
  age of six years he entered the public school at Shady Grove, in sight of the
  "Old Stone
 
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  Tavern," and continued his training there until his common school education
  was completed. He engaged as teacher, his first term being in 1856, at the
  Richland school, known at that time as the William Line school. After his
  first term he entered the first normal school of the county, being held at
  Newville, Pa., and conducted by the county superintendent, Daniel Shelly, one
  of the foremost educators at that day in the county. He alternated teaching
  and studying, until the breaking out of the Civil war. At this time he was
  pursuing the study of the classics, privately, but was interrupted by
  entering into the United States service in 1863, connecting himself with a
  regiment already organized, the 17th Pa. Cavalry, being a member of Company
  F. By a reference to "Bates' History" it will be seen that this regiment, in
  common with others, saw much hard service, being led by the gallant Sheridan
  in many victorious battles. The last battle in which he was engaged was at
  Winchester, Va., on the 19th of September, 1864. Being on detailed service,
  subsequent to this battle, on the 24th of the same month, he was captured by
  Moseby's men at Summit Point, on a reconnoissance, between Harper's Ferry and
  Winchester. He was held as a prisoner of war, passing through the Libby, Belle
  Island (Va.) and Salisbury (N. C.) prisons, and came out from the last place
  on the 22d of February, 1865. He was paroled at Goldsborough, N. C., on the
  26th, and was discharged from the service on general order No. 76, at
  Annapolis, Md., on the 28th of June, 1865. After his return home he
  immediately entered his old profession, that of teaching, but soon became
  impressed with the idea that he should prepare himself for the Gospel
  ministry of the church of which he was a member, the Evangelical Lutheran
  (General Synod). He entered the Theological Seminary at Selins Grove, Pa., and 
  after a three-years' course of hard and faithful study he was ordained by the 
  Susquehanna Synod at Jersey Shore, Pa. He was called to the charge at St. 
  Clairsville, Bedford county, Pa., beginning his labors there July 16, 1871, 
  and served the charge eleven years. From there he was called to Glade, Somerset 
  county, Pa., and served nine years. Then he was called to Tippecanoe City, Ohio, 
  where he remained three years, and then to Leetonia, Ohio, serving that charge 
  six years, after which he removed to his present charge, Akron, Ohio, on 
  March 1, 1900. In an official capacity he served Allegheny Synod as secretary 
  from 1882 to 1884; was president of Allegheny Synod from 1889 to 1891; president 
  of the East Ohio Synod from 1899 to 1901.
    
    Rev. Mr. Zinn has been twice married, the first time on Aug. 19, 1858, to
  Sallie A. Weaver, of Rossville, York county, Pa. To this union there were
  born three children: Ada A., now the wife of Samuel K. Moses, of Osterburg,
  Pa.; Florence Esther, who died at the age of one year and four months; Clara
  Edna, now the wife of Ed. S. Frease, of Akron, Ohio. His wife died March 13,
  1882. On Sept. 18, 1884, he married his second wife, Mary E. Campbell, of
  Addison, Pa., who is in full sympathy with her husband's calling and is a
  most efficient help in his arduous labors. He is successfully serving a
  laborious charge in the growing city of Akron, and while he is growing in
  years, with the inheritance, of a robust constitution and care in living he
  appears as a man of twenty years less his age.