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     Here are a few famous and not so famous Zenner's from a search of the Genealogy Bank newspaper archives. I'll be adding to this page a few more links to Zenner's as I find them in the future.

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1) Wolff to be Tried Today

Date: September 25, 1907
Location: Washington
Paper: Morning Olympian
Article type:  News Article

Jacob Wolff aka Ed Zenner



2) Dies after Giving Warning Boss of Construction Crew Cautions Bystanders Then is Killed

Date: December 4, 1912
Location: North Dakota
Paper: Grand Forks Herald
Article type:  News Article


769) Whitsuntide Festivities

Date: May 26, 1896
Location: Pennsylvania
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
Article type:  News Article

Philipp Zenner, General

"...alary, from all of the forty societies, was given.  Two hundred uniformed horsemen led the procession, which was in charge of the following officiers:  General Philip Zenner, Lieutenant Anton Rapp, Colonel John W. Buch, Staff Adjutant Franz Balkie, Quartermaster Carl Goering, Paymaster Gottlieb Ham-..."


762) No Headline

Date: January 30, 1916
Location: Oregon
Paper: Oregonian
Article type:

"Glenhaven, C. V. Killgore, Principal, ...Maudie Zenner, ...Henry Livingston...Charley Grove, Edward Jensen..."


2) Zenner Shoots Himself the Murderer of His Pretty Sweetheart Carries out His Written Promise

Date: February 6, 1892
Location: Pennsylvania
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
Article type:  News Article


also:


801) Summary of the News

Date: February 6, 1892
Location: Maryland
Paper: Sun
Article type:  News Article


"...Frederick Zenner, who killed his sweetheart, Maggie Weismiller ?, in New York, committed suicide yesterday.

Work on the Reading Terminal system..."



3) [Frank Zenner; Zenner; Zenner]

Date: December 19, 1903
Location: Washington
Paper: Olympia Record
Article type:  News Article


"The attorneys of Frank Zenner, presented arguement in the supreme court yesterday morning for a writ of habeous corpus.  Zenner was convicted in October und the new mortality law ofliving with a fallen women of African descent, his case is now pending an appeal."



4) Zenner and Pump

Date: October 2, 1892
Location: Arizona
Paper: Tombstone Epitaph Prospector
Article type:  News Article



5) [Charles Zenner]

Date: April 11, 1842
Location: Massachusetts
Paper: Boston Evening Transcript
Article type:
(christian musical author)


499) Not Yet Fixed. The Twenty-Ninth Ward "Kickers" Still at Sea. Objecting to Their Own Committee's

Date: January 1, 1886
Location: Pennsylvania
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
Article type:  News Article
Zenner is promoted to gauger. (A Gauger was listed as a Preventative man, who collects taxes, etc. and prevents smuggling.) More on gauger follows: (Irish)


Gadger  (British) is listed as:

Gadgers Hole



Deep ditch at bottom of Kennon supposed to be haunted by a headless horseman. Probably a smugglers’ hide.

Gadger's Luck



Jingle much spoken at one time:



"Gadger's Luck has turned at last



Gadger's Gold has turned to brass"



It means that the Gaugers or Preventative men (Customs and Excise) slipped up and someone got away with smuggling.

(British)

     Zenner's found on Footnote:

Frederick Zenner, Third Regiment, New York, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War

NARA
Date: 1775-1785
State: New York
Publication Number: M881

Henry Zenner, Civil War Pensions
Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Seved Between 1861-1900
14th Regiment, Cavalry
D, 14
NARA
Date: 7 July 1890
State: New York
Publication Number: T289
Roll Number 368
(See burial same name: Henry Zenner (Hoyer) Hillside Cemetery, Andover, New York 1886-1941)
Henry Zenner Civil War Pensions, Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861-1900

NARA
State: New York
Light Artillery
Regiment: 9 Independant Battery
Date: 31 Jan 1910
Batty. N. Y. L. A.
Roll Number: 383

     Celia or Cecilia Zenner, Zentner, Spanner, maiden name of Moglich found in Orleans Parish, Louisiana birth records c. 1872

In the Louisiana BLM GLO records a Wilhem Zenter owning over 150 acres in Acadia Parish, Louisiana in 1880. ( He was "a way down dere in da bayou...")

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