Husband Ira S. Zeigler 1 2
AKA: Ira S. Ziegler 3
Born: 4 Jul 1866 - Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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Died: 1915 3
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Father: David M. Zeigler (1843-1924) 4 5
Mother: Elizabeth Stauffer (1845-1925) 3 5 6
Marriage: 1890 3
Wife Clara Pennell 2 3 7
Born: 1870 2
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Died: 1945 2
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Father: Sylvenus Pennell ( - ) 7
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1 F Blanche E. Zeigler 7
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Spouse: Lamont Hartung Button ( -1961) 8
2 F Florence Hester Zeigler 7 8
Born: 1894 8
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Died: 1912 8
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3 M David P. Zeigler 7
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4 F Lucile Zeigler 7
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General Notes: Husband - Ira S. Zeigler
He was reared on the home farm and was afforded an academic education. At the age of nineteen years he entered the office of the P. & W. Railroad, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, where he learned telegraphing and subsequently served as an operator at different points. In August, 1888, he was appointed agent at Bakerstown and three months later was promoted to the agency at Girard, Ohio, which position he resigned in the fall of 1891 in order to give his entire time to the wholesale coal business, in which he had previously engaged. In the fall of 1891, in the year following his marriage, he came to Zelienople and continued in the coal jobbing business until the amalgamation of coal interests, in the summer of 1893, having been a heavy dealer and at one time he had controlled the whole output of slack in the Beaver Valley.
Mr. Ziegler gained his first banking experience in the bank of Gelbach Brothers, which firm he served as bookkeeper. Later he was employed by the Patterson-Lockwood Oil Company and the Patterson Natural Gas Company and was bookkeeper for both concerns. On August 21, 1896, Mr. Ziegler purchased the Connoquenessing Valley News, from the firm of Young & Stoughton, and his energy was soon shown by the extension of its patronage. In June, 1898, he purchased the Globe, a weekly newspaper published at Evans City, and subsequently he consolidated it with the News, and he continued in editorial and newspaper work until December 28, 1901, when he disposed of his interests in order to give more attention to other business affairs, which had grown to considerable magnitude. During the oil excitement at Scio, Ohio, in 1898, Mr. Ziegler was attracted to that place with other men of business forethought, and he was successful in securing leases which later proved very profitable. Later his operations in oil were in many fields, including Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. In the last named state he operated under the name of the Ira S. Zeigler Company, an incorporated concern, but in the other fields he works independently. In January, 1907, Mr. Ziegler was elected president of the First National Bank at Zelienople and his business career were of such a nature that his mere name would add strength and confidence to any institution.
With his family, Mr. Ziegler belonged to the Presbyterian Church. In his political views, he was a Republican. He served eight years as a notary public and three terms as a member of the Zelienople town council. He was a Royal Arch Mason, a member of Butler Chapter No. 273, and past master of Harmony Lodge, No. 429, F. & A. M. [TCHBC, 951]