Michael Zahniser and Christiana McGill

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Husband Michael Zahniser ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 10 Sep 1830 - Mercer Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: Jacob Zahniser (Cir 1792-1852) 1 4
         Mother: Catherine Wright (1790-1861) 1 4

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       Marriage: 1854 3 5

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Wife Christiana McGill ^{3 5}

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Children

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1 M Charles M. Zahniser ^{5 6}

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           Born: 1856 6
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Somerville (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 1895 6

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General Notes: Husband - Michael Zahniser

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He was educated in the public schools of Mercer, Pennsylvania, and was a student of medicine at Philadelphia when his father's death compelled him to return to Mercer, where along with his brother, William, he took control of his father's store. In 1864 he entered the banking business, becoming vice president of the Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank of Sharon. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church and for half a century was prominent in Free Masonry in which he occupied some of the highest chairs.

He was reared in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, graduated at Mercer Academy in 1844 and from Princeton College in 1849, when aged but nineteen years. He chose medicine for a profession and studied at Philadelphia, but in 1852 his father died and he returned to Mercer to take charge of the store which his father had been conducting and to look after the large estate. Thereafter he followed merchandising at Mercer up to 1864, at which date he began his career as a banker, being associated with L. Hefling, the firm being styled Zahniser & Co., private bankers, of Mercer. In 1868 he and W. H. Hefling went to Sharon and became associated with the Sharon National Bank, of which he was cashier for about thirty-five years, or until the bank was sold, and in 1903 upon the organization of the Merchants and Manufacturers' National Bank, Mr. Zahniser became vice-president of the new concern.
He and his wife were members of the Episcopal church. He was a Democrat in political views, and in fraternal affiliations a Knight Templar.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1018.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 438.

3 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 172.

4 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 169.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 439.

6 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 173.