Sullivan-Bradford-Lycoming County PA Archives Biographies.....ZANER, Lewis B. 1863 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      LEWIS B. ZANER, who carries on general farming in Cherry township, was born
  December 31, 1863, on the old Zaner homestead, a part of which he now owns, and
  is the son of Adam H. Zaner, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.
  Our subject spent his boyhood and youth in attending a district school and
  assisting his father on the farm, until 1888, when he went to Overton,
  Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the manufacture of wintergreen extracts for
  nearly two years. He then removed to Proctor, Lycoming county, where he carried
  on the same business for three years, and later went to East Canton,
  Pennsylvania, where he remained two years. He then sold out his factory and
  returned to Sullivan county, purchasing from his father the farm on which he now
  lives. This he has brought to a high state of cultivation, and is justly proud
  of his fertile fields, excellent stock and pleasant home. He is well known
  throughout the community as an intelligent and enterprising man, and he and his
  family are highly respected by all who know them. He is a member of the German
  Reformed church and a Republican in politics.
  
      Mr. Zaner was married April 8, 1896, to Miss Minnie Benjamin, of Dushore,
  and they have one child, Miriam. Mrs. Zaner is a daughter of Edward and Salinda
  (Colley) Benjamin, and was born at Dushore, September 9, 1867. Her father was
  born in Michigan, and when three years of age was brought by his parents to
  Sullivan county. They settled at Dushore where the family have since resided.
  Mrs. Benjamin died in 1881, at the age of thirty-three years. Mr. Benjamin, who
  is a painter and decorator by trade, is still living and resides at Dushore.
  Their children were four in number: Minnie, wife of our subject; William F.,
  deceased; Emily and Deborah, who are living with their father.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from: 
    
  History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
  by Thomas J. Ingham
    
  Compendium of Biography
    
  The Lewis Publishing Company
  Chicago: 1899
  
  
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