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Source:
20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio
by Joseph B. Doyle -
Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago -
1910
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F. ZENDE, one of the leading German-American
citizens and farmers of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson
County, Ohio, where he owns 146 acres of fine land, was
born in Germany, January 30, 1867, and is a son of
Christopher and Bertha (Promer) Zende.
The father of Mr. Zende came to America in
1878, locating at Pittsburg, Pa., where his family
joined him in 1876, and they remained there for two yeas
and then came to Steubenville, where the father opened
his harness making shop and continued in business.
Both he and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. They had the following children:
Charles Albert, who was born February 11, 1858;
Theodore William, who was born April 12, 1863;
Otto F., and Paul Ernest, who was born Oct.
9, 1870.
Otto F. Zende, attended the public schools at
Pittsburg and later at Steubenville, but when sixteen
years old he started to work in his father's harness
shop. Two years later he became a farmer, working
at first by the month and finding it both pleasant and
profitable, decided to make farming his steady business.
After his marriage he bought a farm from George
Snider which he sold some time later and then bought
his present farm, from the Buchanan heirs. He has
a coal bank on his property which he works during the
winter time, but during the summer does all his own farm
work. He is a very practical, hard working man,
takes much interest in maintaining and adding to the
fertility of the land and, as his means have justified,
has made many substantial improvements.
Mr. Zende was married October 28, 1890, to
Miss Annie V. Snider, a daughter of George and
Margaret Jane (Timin) Snider, who had other children
as follows: McClelland, Mary, Anderson, Elva,
John and Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Zende
have four children: Bertha Edna, Gertrude Elliott,
Ernest Otto and Emmett Gourley. Mr. Zende
and family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church which stands on his farm. In
politics he is a Republican. He has served one
term as school director.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville &
Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ
Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1057 |
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