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This is a biographical sketch of Henry Zeigler in the "Commemorative
Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley" which lists his family and
other data.  The book was published in 1897 by the J.B. Runk Publishing Co.
of Chambersburg, Pa.


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,
MountUnion, 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 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 ShadeGap, in 1873, to Amanda, daughter of BriceBlair.  Their children
are: Chalmers B.;William Franklin; and Blanche Ruth. Mr.Zeigler is a member
of the Presbyterian church.