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Born 7 January 1843, in this county
The tie, exactly: native son — born in St. Joseph County on 7 January 1843 to Arbogast and Rosa (Binder) Zaehnle, educated three years at Notre Dame with a commercial course, and this township's most fully documented second-generation course in Chapman.
The war: his Civil War service was a clerk's, and it is printed at its true, unglamorous strength: paymaster's clerk under Major Camp at Louisville, then at Bowling Green and Nashville under Major Fell; afterward a clerkship in the sutler store of C. Henry Fink; home near the war's close. The township's war record in this section is mostly courses like this and John W. Griffith's — one cavalryman's four years and one clerk's desk work — and the file declines to dress either up.
The course: he married Theresa Schirk on 29 April 1874, bringing her from Germany; he farmed his Section 22 acres and worked his father's farm besides. His public service — township assessor for ten years and trustee, in his second term when Chapman wrote — stands in the Government leg, cross-referenced here as the record of the same man.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township biographical sketches — the Zaehnle sketch whole.