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Settled 1834 · Section 22
The tie, exactly: settler, 1834 — and here the dating needs care, printed whole: Howard lists Zaehnle among the "very early settlers" without a year; Chapman dates the coming to 1834, on Section 22, with Zaehnle still residing there in 1880; and Chapman's own biographical sketch of the son, pages away in the same volume, says the father came to Ohio in 1830, married Rosa Binder in 1834, and "moved to this county [the] same year." The three statements agree on 1834 for the county arrival once they are read together, and the entry prints them together so the agreement is the reader's to check.
The course: the father's own sketch is the son's, below; the farm on Section 22 is the constant — Arbogast settled it in 1834, was on it in 1880, and his son was farming it, with his own adjoining acres, when Chapman wrote. Seventy years of one family's tenure on one section is the longest documented run in this section after the Meyers'.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township chapter and biographical sketches — the 1834 arrival, Section 22, residing 1880; the son's sketch for the Ohio and marriage dates.
- Howard (1907), ch. V, §3 — Zaehnle in the early roll, undated.