Zeh, Gottlieb

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• Death Record - Church: 10 Feb 1903

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Death Record - Church:
Name:Gotleib Zeh
Death Date:10 Feb 1903
Death Place:Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
Volume:03
Page Number:0096
Reel:104
Image:2567
Sequence Number:431731

Gottlieb married Grott, Minnie Bef 1860. Minnie was born Bef 1842; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 1172

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Biography:
HENRY ZEH, carrying on extensive agricultural operations in Center township, has been a lifelong resident of this section, having been born September 4, 1860, on the farm of his father, Gottlieb Zeh. The latter was a native of Germany, who left that country when twelve years old to come to the United States, and finished the journey with his mother, his father having died on the vessel while making the passage to this country. The little family first located on twenty acres of land situated near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was cultivated by Mr. Zeh until he was twenty-one or twenty-two years old, and then with his mother sold the land and bought eighty acres of property in Greenville. Here the family remained four or five years, Gottlieb and two brothers clearing the land and building a little log cabin, but later one of these brothers, Christian, enlisted for service in the Union army during the Civil War, and lost his life during that struggle. The family then moved to the farm in Center township, and here Mr. Zeh was engaged in agricultural pursuits all the remainder of his life, rising to a position of influence among his fellow townsmen, who gave evidence of the esteem in which he was held by electing him to various township offices. He married Minnie Grott, daughter of Christian Grott, a neighboring farmer, and to them there were born four children, of whom Henry was the oldest.
Henry Zeh secured his education in the district schools of his native locality, which he attended during the winter months as his summers were devoted to the work on the home farm. He continued to farm the home property until purchasing his present tract, a fine piece of land adjoining the family homestead, and he is also the owner of another farm, lying east of this property, a tract of 137 acres which he has under cultivation. In 1900 Mr. Zeh erected a fine new house, having previously built two large barns. He has been successful in his general farming and dairying operations, and is considered one of the prosperous and substantial farmers of Center township. Mr. Zeh has little time for public work and takes no active part in politics, deeming it wisest to attend to his own business properly and give other things the second place. He is kind and charitable, however, and always ready to help a good cause with money and influence. He is a very busy man, but manages to be a constant attendant of the Lutheran church of Ellington, of which he is an active and prominent member. Mr. Zeh has never married; his sister, Emma, kept house for him for some years, but since her marriage he has lived alone.