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Master carpenter of the Pennsylvania Lines’ bridge-building forces
On the record
Dennis C. Zook, a son of Daniel and Nancy (Steele) Zook, learned the carpenter’s trade with a brother at Nevada, Ohio, and then entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Lines at Upper Sandusky. He advanced from one post to another until he was placed in charge of the carpenter work of the road between Chicago and Pittsburgh — master carpenter of its bridge-building forces between those cities — and Fort Wayne was his home. Two of his daughters taught in the Fort Wayne public schools: Edith May, for ten years, and Gertrude A., who was teaching in the city schools at the time of the sketch. Griswold also records that he was a stockholder in one of the city’s leading banks and owned real estate in Fort Wayne.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Zook sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.