Superintendent of the Stover Manufacturing Company of Freeport, is a native of the German Empire and was born in May, 1856. Three years later he was brought by his parents, Oscar F. and Ernestine Ziegler, to America. After a brief sojourn in the city of New York they set out for the West and located in the city of Freeport, where our subject was reared and educated. He remained under the parental roof until a youth of sixteen years, when he engaged to learn the trade of a machinist under Mr. Charles Knecht, with whom he spent three years. He was subsequently variously employed for a time and finally went to De Kalb County and engaged with the firm of I. L. Elwwod and Co., manufacturers of barbed wire. He remained with this firm twelve months, then returned to Freeport and upon the organization of the Stover Manufacturing Company became a stockholder, and in 1880 was made Superintendent of the works. He has distinguished himself as a young man of good judgment and enterprise, and is discharging the duties of his position in a highly creditable manner. Mr. Ziegler was married, in 1886, to Miss Hattie Snyder, daughter of J. H. Snyder, Esq., of Freeport. Their snug home is located on Carroll street. Mr. Z. is a member in good standing of the Knights of Pythias, and is a favorite in the social circles frequented by himself and his estimable wife.

Contributed by Christine Walters from Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Ill. (1888), p. 639,40