BIO: Henry C. ZEIGLER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 167-168.
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  HENRY C. ZEIGLER, Shade Gap, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
December 29, 1847, in Dublin township, Huntingdon county, son of Isaac 
Ziegler and Harriet (Hooper) Zeigler. The family name is German; the 
paternal grandparents of Mr. Zeigler came to America from the 
fatherland, and are both buried near Fort Littleton, Fulton county, Pa. 
Isaac Zeigler was born in Fulton county about 1797; he died at Dry Run, 
Pa., in 1859, aged sixty-two, of typhoid fever; his wife survived him 
until about 1869. Their children are: Mary A. (Mrs. Jacob Miller), 
Burnt Cabins, Pa.; Elizabeth (Mrs. George Foreman), Shade Gap; Ellen 
(Mrs. Brice Ramsey), Mount Union, Pa.; Thomas, farmer, Franklin county, 
Pa.; Jacob, farmer at Concord, Pa., was a soldier in the war of the 
Rebellion, and was wounded in the left side by a ball which passed 
through his body, and is still lodged under his right shoulder blade; 
Brice, was also in the war, and afterwards carried on the flour and 
feed business near Pittsburg, where he was drowned, being seized with 
cramp while bathing; Henry C.; and James, carpenter, Mount Union, Pa. 
Mrs. Zeigler died about 1869.
  When Henry C. Zeigler was five or six years old, his parents removed 
to Dry Run. Here he attended the public schools until he was about 
twelve. He was very young when his father died, and he was obliged to 
go out and work as farm hand. He was thus employed until in his 
seventeenth year, he ran away from home and enlisted. His mother 
followed him as far as Mount Union, but could not overtake him. It was 
the boom of the cannon at Gettysburg, while the youth was still at Dry 
Run, that had fired him with patriotic zeal, and he now gladly enrolled 
his name for the six months; service, in Company H, Twenty-first 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was mustered in at Harrisburg; it was in the 
summer of 1863. Mr. Zeigler proceeded with his regiment to the front, 
but they were soon detailed for service in the coal regions of 
Pennsylvania, to quell the "Molly Maguires," and to capture deserters. 
While in the discharge of his duty, on a march to Harrisburg, Pa., Mr. 
Zeigler's horse slipped and fell on the ice, and he, falling under the 
horse, was struck by the saddle and severely ruptured. Being mustered 
out at Chambersburg, Pa., he went home, and learned the trade of 
tinsmithing, at Dry Run, where he remained, engaged in that occupation, 
until 1870. He then opened a tin and stove store at Shade Gap, and has 
ever since continued the business. He has made his way in the world 
unassisted, and has not only achieved success in business, but has won 
respect and confidence, and been useful in the community. Mr. Zeigler 
has served as school director, councilman, and chief burgess, and is 
now in his twenty-fourth year as justice of the peace. For some years 
he was postmaster. He is of the Republican party.
  Henry C. Zeigler was married in Shade Gap, in 1873, to Amanda, 
daughter of Brice Blair. Their children are: Chalmers B.; William 
Franklin; and Blanche Ruth. Mr. Zeigler is a member of the Presbyterian 
church.