. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin counties, Indiana .. . worthy philanthropies. CAPTAIN DANIEL K. ZELLER. After half a century of active, aggressive labors in the business world,the subject of this article is now living retired, having amassed a comfortablefortune, and for several decades having occupied positions of trust and honorin the service of the public. He has contributed generously in time, influ-ence, work and money, to various charitable and religious organizations, andnow, in his declining days, can look back upon a past which has been fi
. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin counties, Indiana .. . worthy philanthropies. CAPTAIN DANIEL K. ZELLER. After half a century of active, aggressive labors in the business world,the subject of this article is now living retired, having amassed a comfortablefortune, and for several decades having occupied positions of trust and honorin the service of the public. He has contributed generously in time, influ-ence, work and money, to various charitable and religious organizations, andnow, in his declining days, can look back upon a past which has been filledwith deeds of kindness and helpfulness toward his fellowmen. About 1740 the paternal great-grandfather of the Captain came fromSwitzerland to the United States. He was then a small boy, and, with hisparents, he settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania. He followed farming asa means of livelihood, and reared his six sons to the same occupation. Inhis religious attitude he was a Protestant. About 1805 five of his sons set-tled in Ohio, and the youngest of the number, John, was the grandfather of. ^^yLA^U^ \j. //. Q^^l^ BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY. 569 •our subject. He spent the rest of his hfe on a farm in Loj^an county, Ohio;and he and his five children, Benjamin, John, Jacob, Peter, and a daughter,Mrs. PauHn, are deceased. The father of Captain Zeller was John, born in Berl<s county, Pennsyl-vania, October 22, 1797. He was apprenticed to the carpenters trade, and,after serving for four 3ears, was considered an expert workman. The firsthouse which he built was located on the bank of the Miami river, near Mid-dletown, and every nail in it was made by hand, the cost being twenty-fivecents a pound. In 1821 he married Susannah Kumler, daughter of Kumler, who for many years was a bishop in the United Brethrendenomination, and whose paternal grandfather had emigrated from the can-ton of Basle, Switzerland, to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, within the firstha
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