BIO:  Sebastian Zeller, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 184

SEBASTIAN ZELLER, farmer, was born in Bavaria, November 12, 1822, and came to America in 1847.  
Landing at Baltimore he stopped there about six months, and then came to York County, where, at 
Emigsville, he engaged in burning lime for five years.  From there he removed to Shrewsbury 
(1857), where he purchased a farm of seventy-five acres, on which he has resided since.  He was 
educated in Germany, and was the elder of two sons of John and Barbara (Zuizor) Zeller.  In 
1848 he was married, at York, to Catharine Koch, a native of Bavaria.  They had seven children, 
of whom two are died:  Sarah E. and John T.  The living are Mary Ann, John A., Barbara, 
Franklin and Sophia.  The family are Catholics.  Mr. Zeller is a Democrat, and was one of the 
organizers of the New Freedom Building Association.