Husband Edwin Zehner 1 2
AKA: Edward Zehner 3
Born: 21 Aug 1839 - Philadelphia, PA 1
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Died: 18 Jun 1907 4
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Father: Frederick Zehner ( - ) 5
Mother: [Unk] Balliet ( - ) 1
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Wife Sophia Schmidt 4
AKA: Sophia Smith 2
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Died: Aft 1909
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Father: Peter Schmidt ( - ) 4
Mother: Mary Dumbaugh ( - ) 4
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1 F Matilda S. Zehner 2 4
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Spouse: William Andrew Hartzell (1859- ) 6
Marr: 1885 2
2 F Mary Zehner 3 4
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Spouse: Lewis N. Burry (1862- ) 3 4
Marr: 1887 3
3 F Laura Zehner 4
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Died: Bef 1909
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Spouse: Rev. E. T. Butz ( - ) 4
4 F Hannah Zehner 7
Born: 1871 7
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Died: 1935 7
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Spouse: Noah M. Wise (1869-1946) 4 7 8
5 F Alma Zehner 4
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Spouse: Audley A. Hutchison ( - ) 4
6 M Alfred G. Zehner 4
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Spouse: Hazel Richardson ( - ) 4
7 M F. Edward Zehner 4
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8 M Gilbert F. Zehner 4
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Spouse: Marie Allen ( - ) 4
General Notes: Husband - Edwin Zehner
He was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within a few days after his parents had reached the United States from the family home in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, where his father and grandfather had been men of prominence.
He was given the limited public school education afforded by the country schools, six months in a year, until he was twelve years old; the hard work incident to clearing up the farm required the combined efforts of the family, very much curtailing his educational privileges. At the age mentioned he was deprived of both father and mother and forced to depend on relatives for whom he worked to obtain a livelihood. In early manhood he learned the carpenter and cabinet trade with a Mr. Halstein at Zelienople and in 1865 he entered into the furniture and undertaking business for himself at Zelienople. He lived a long and busy life meeting with ample returns for his industry and frugality. Beginning with practically no capital, working patiently on, adding each year to his possessions and also to his friends and customers, his inborn business ability, with the aid of practical experience, asserted itself and made him the head and proprietor of one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the county. When he was ready to retire from active management, he had sons whom he had trained to do the same work and who were capable of carrying it successfully on. In 1896 a commodious three-story brick building was erected on the old site and the larger and more convenient quarters gave opportunity for more extensive operations. The business he founded, later carried on by his sons Alfred G. and F. Edward, took its place as the largest and most modernly equipped of any of its kind in the county.
At the time of his death he was probably the most widely-known man in private life in western Pennsylvania. In politics he was a stanch Democrat, and during nearly the whole of his life held important offices in the administration of borough affairs, and was said to have occupied the office of burgess oftener than any other individual. He was an exemplary member of the German Lutheran Church of Zelienople.