BIO:  Francis S. ZINN, 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 73

FRANCIS S. ZINN, junk dealer of Hanover, Penn., was born in Austria in 1847, and 
is the eldest of two sons of George J. and Theresa (Hergesell) Zinn, natives of 
Austria.  The father was a major in the Austrian army for eighteen years; he 
came to this country in 1858 and settled at Hanover; in 1862 he enlisted in 
Company G, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, for one 
year, and died in 1879.  Francis S. was brought up at Hanover, where he received 
a good German and English education, which enabled him to teach a German school 
in New York State, one term.  In 1868 he was married to Belinda Parr, who died, 
leaving five children:  Ida K., George W., Otto J., Harry W. (deceased) and Rosa 
J.  Mr. Zinn belongs to the Lutheran Church of Hanover; is a Mason and a member 
of the I. O. O. F., commander of Encampment No. 47, of Hanover.  In politics he 
is an active Democrat, and has held the offices of assessor, school director, 
district superintendent of schools of Heidelberg and Penn Townships, and in 1880 
was enumerator of the census for the same townships.  Before engaging in his 
present business he followed farming.