“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


JOHN ZEIDLER, Jr.,  shoemaker, Jefferson; born in Jefferson, three 
miles southeast of the city, Sept. 30, 1848; farmed till 15 years of age; 
then served apprenticeship at trade three years, and has since been 
engaged in present business.  Married Miss Christiana Troeger Feb. 24, 
1870; she was born July 9, 1850; they have three children – Edward, 
born Jan. 24, 1871; Ernest, March, 1873, and George, Dec. 18, 1877.  
The family belong to the Lutheran Church.  His father, John Adam Z., 
came to Jefferson in 1846, and bought a farm near Jefferson; he was 
born in Bavaria, Germany, June 9, 1815, and died July 13, 1871.  He 
helped build the first log schoolhouse in this vicinity, and also helped cut 
the first road from this place to Rock River.  His wife, Catharine Zeidler, 
was born in Bavaria in 1826, and died in 1868; they had four children – 
John; Charles, born Feb. 28, 1850; Christiana, June 7, 1854, and Mary, 
Feb. 25, 1859.


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