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Grocer turned furniture man; a principal of the A. C. Muntzinger Furniture Company
On the record
John Zelt, a son of Jacob and Sophia (Gallmeyer) Zelt, worked on his parents’ Adams Township farm until 1890, when he removed to Fort Wayne and became a salesman for the Brudi Brothers flour mills at Bloomingdale. A year later he formed a partnership with his brother Edward in the retail grocery business; after two and a half years he bought his brother’s interest and for thirteen years conducted the store alone, in a building he erected at the corner of Gay Street and Creighton Avenue. He sold the grocery and in 1905 became a salesman for the D. N. Foster Furniture Company, remaining with that house until 1 July 1916. On 10 July 1916 he purchased an interest in the A. C. Muntzinger Furniture Company. He married Minnie Rodenbeck on 19 April 1888. His brother Ernest Zelt, whose sketch stands next to his in Griswold’s volume, farmed in Adams Township and falls outside this supplement’s city scope.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Zelt sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.