M. Rudolph Zahniser and Winifred E. Lowry

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Husband M. Rudolph Zahniser ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1858 or 1859 - Mercer Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Michael Zahniser (1820-1899) 3 4 5
         Mother: Margaret Hogg (      -1888) 5 6

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       Marriage: 1887 1 2

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Wife Winifred E. Lowry ²

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           Born:  - Mercer Co, PA
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Children

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1 M Leroy S. Zahniser ²

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2 F Julia M. Zahniser ²

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3 F Wilda M. Zahniser ²

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4 M Cecil Zahniser ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - M. Rudolph Zahniser

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He was reared and educated in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and there followed farming until 1885, when he came to Washington County, where, until 1899, he worked as a machinist and followed oil-well drilling. He then leased a foundry, which was the beginning of a well established business, which took shape, in 1902. The Washington Foundry and Manufacturing Company did general foundry work. They occupied two buildings, one being 100 feet square, and the dimensions of the other being 30x60 feet and three stories in height. Mr. Zahniser invented an oil derrick, constructed of iron, which could be manufactured in his foundry.

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 939.

2 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 162.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1018.

4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 598, 939.

5 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 159.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 598.