Genealogy Data Page 620 (Notes Pages)

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For privacy reasons, Date of Birth and Date of Marriage for persons believed to still be living are not shown.

Census: Date: 1850
Place: East Lackawannock, Mercer, Pennsylvania

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Zuver, Andrew Milford (b. MAR 1837, d. AFT 1910)

Note: Misspelled in Michigan Census 1870 as Zoover and as Zunis in 1880 Census

The Titusville city directory, 1904
Zuver, Andrew, Justice of the Peace

Titusville, Pa. directory, 1906
Zuver, Andrew, Justice of the Peace, Hydetown

Farmers' directory of Crawford County, Penn'a, 1909-1910
Justice of the Peace - Hydetown Boro - Commision expires May 1910

Zuver, A M, (Selter & Zuver) livery, res 110 w Main 1896 Benton Harbor, Michigan - City Directory Kimball Publishing Company

Census: Date: 1850
Place: East Lackawannock, Mercer, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Pleasantville, Venango, PA

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Ferris, Montcalm, Michigan

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Ferris, Montcalm, MI

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Hydestown, Crawford, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Sadsbury Twp, Crawford, PA

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Zuver, Brownlee (b. ABT 1841, d. 30 SEP 1884)

Note: American Civil War Soldiers Record

Name: Brownlee Zuver ,
Enlistment Date: 21 August 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Pennsylvania
Unit Numbers: 2353 2353
Service Record: Enlisted as a Sergeant on 21 August 1861
Enlisted in Company A, 83rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 21 August 1861.
Discharged Company A, 83rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 28 June 1865

Titusville Morning Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania) > 1873 > March > 24

Pleasantville Notes
Correspondence of the Herald
Pleasantville, March 22, 1873
The election yesterday passed off with the order and quietude characteristic of our borough, the straight union ticket as published in the Herald, was carried with one exception, viz: Samuel Halch being elected constable instead of George Priestly. Unexpectedly to the friends of Anti-license. Whisky triumphs by majority of twenty-nine in its favor, the first fruits of which are made manifest by a most brutal outrage on one of our most respectable and inoffensive citizens. The facts are as follows: Your popular agent Mr J N Coons, who is proprietor of the Pleasantville branch of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Co., was engaged up to a late hour last night, in the receipt and circulation of election returns, &e. After closing his office, supposing the news would be of interest to the proprietors of the Eagle Hotel, he stepped into the billiard hall kept in a part of the same by one Brownlee Zuver, where he engaged in conversation with Mr McKaughlin, the proprietor of the hotel, and Mr Noxonm on the pohteal question of the day, &e. During which Zuver though not addressed or in any manner referred to, commenced a sweeping tirade against the Postmaster, the newly elected Burges, Mr Coon and others and finally charged Mr C with having said that Johnny Goal, and his band of “pimps” had put up a job to elect Hatch instead of Priestly.

Mr C in his quiet way denied the charge when Zuver, who was sitting on the counter, jumped down and without further ceremony dealt him a stunning blow behind the left ear at the base of the brain. Mr C being of a naturally peaceable disposition and not designing to engage in a pugilistic brawl with one of Zuver’s known character, at once commenced retreating towards the reading room, closely pursued by Zuver, who continued dealing blows upon him, the last of which was given in the reading room at this time Mr C made a motion as if to draw a revolver, which, unfortunately, he had fetes at his office. Zuver made a similar movement, threatening that he would blow the top of C’s head off. By this time C was near the street door, which he opened and passed out, leaving his hat in the billiard hall, where it had been knocked off at the commencement of the affair, but which has returned to his home by the defendant this morning. On leaving the hotel, Mr Coon waited upon A Holeman, Esq, and procured a warrant for assault and battery, upon which Zuver was arrested this morning, and at once pleaded guilty. The Justice, however, not being satisfied with this called in Messrs McLaughlin and Noxon to show the nature of the assault, which proved to be of the most unjustifiable, wanton and mahions character and resulted in the defendants being fined $20 for the benefit of the school xxx with the costs of prosecution. It may be proper to state here that Mr Coon enjoys esteem and confidence of the community and at the close of the tirade was highly complimented by the Court for his self control xx of this unwarrantable provocation.

We are happy to notice the encouraging success attending the efforts of our townsmen, C A xx Esq, horticulturist and xxx. His establishment and grounds are of model of this highly necessary branch of industrial act and eminently worthy the attention and patronage of the public. We are informed by the Postmaster that he has pand Mr Reeser, during the present week, fifty-three orders amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $387.15 and the he still hold sixteen money order advices amounting to $117.85, besides the receipt of twenty registered letters. This is simply an exhibit of his post office transactions and of course exclusive of private operations.

Spelled Zouver in the 1880 Census

Evening Observer (Dunkirk, New York) > 1884 > October > 9

At the soldiers reunion at Titusville, Sept. 16th, Captain Grace, Lieutenant Gifford, of Erie, and Brown L Zuver, of Franklin, were appointed a committee to visit the old battle ground at Gettysburg, to inspect the monuments now being erected there over the graves of the veteran dead. Captain Grace arranged to join Zuver, on the proposed trip, at Warren. He arrived there last Monday morning just in time to find his comrade’s almost lifeless body lying torn and bleeding by the side of the car tracks, where it had been thrown by a passing train. Captain Grace at once besought the landlord of the Reviere House for an apartment wherein he might carry Zuver and have him properly cared for. The humane request the brutal landlord refused to accede to and though the Captain offered as high as a month’s board, in fact, any price, for the accommodation this man, no friend, turned a deaf ear. Zuver lay on the rough boards outside, while the Reviere House landlord refused him the few accommodations that might serve to mitigate the terrible sufferings of his dying hours. It is a story of brutality almost past belief, and Captain Grace is justly indignant. Zuver was afterward taken to a boarding house in the neighborhood.

1890 Veterans Schedules Record
Veteran's name: Bromelee Zuver
Relative's name: Martha J Zuver
Relationship to veteran: Widow
Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Pleasantville, Venango, Pennsylvania
Year enlisted: 1861
Year discharged: 1865
Rank: Sergeant

Occupation: Date: 1880
Place: Laborer

Occupation: Date: 1870
Place: Oil Miner

Census: Date: 1850
Place: East Lackawannock, Mercer, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Pleasantville, Venango, PA

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Pleasantville, Venango, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Pleasantville, Venango, PA

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Claypool, Catherine (b. 20 JUN 1804, d. 20 MAY 1884)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Alleghany, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Alleghany, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Gilpin, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

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Zuver, Catherine (b. 31 DEC 1836, d. 4 APR 1925)

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Allegheny, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Alleghany, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Allegheny, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Bethel, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

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Zuver, George (b. ABT 1832, d. 1914)

Note: Ancestry search for 1870 Transcribed as Bonver

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Boatman

Occupation: Date: 1880
Place: Laborer

Occupation: Date: BET 1900 AND 1910
Place: Constable

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Alleghany, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Manor, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Manor, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Manor, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Ford City Boro, Armstrong, Pennsylvania

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Zuver, Joseph R (b. ABT 1834, d. 1896)

Note: Judge Addison Oliver resigned his position as circuit judge to go to congress, to which position he was elected in 1874. He was succeeded on the bench as judge of the circuit court by Hon. J R. Zuver, of Harrison county. Judge C. H. Lewis was born a natural judge and for his usefulness and efficiency as district judge he has been kept on the bench to the present time, with a good prospect of continuing in the same position for years to come. He has a number of time been presented to the republican state convention for nomination as a Supreme Court judge.

Hon. J. R. Zuver continued judge of the circuit court of the Fourth judicial circuit from 1874 till about 1881 or 1882, when failing health compelled him to resign.

Judge Zuver was a man of strong conviction, and would not swerve an inch from what he thought was right as he saw it. He was able and possessed a good legal mind – was really calculated for a trial lawyer, and before going on to the bench was a grand success as a trial and jury lawyer.

Judge Zuver was succeeded on the bench by Hon. D. D. McCollum, of Osceola county, who held such position until the legislature of the state abolished the circuit court.

Joseph R. Zuver, circuit judge of the fourth district, is a native of Kittanning, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, son of Jacob and Catherine Claypole Zuver, and was born on the 16th of September, 1833. His paternal grandfather came from Germany, and nothing is known of the family farther back. Joseph was the third child in a family of ten children, eight of whom are yet living. An elder brother had a feeble constitution, and at fifteen years of age Joseph had not only to take care of himself, but in a large measure, of his parents and younger members of the family.

At the age mentioned, with an ordinary common school education, he commenced flat-boating on the Alleghany and the Ohio rivers, operating on these streams, in various capacities, most of the time until thirty-four years old. He was a steam boat pilot during the first year of the civil war, and captain of a boat in 1862, 1866 and 1867.

During this period he also learned the carpenter’s trade, working at it at different periods. He also taught school three terms, and had pressing invitations to continue teaching; but he could make more at flat-boating and steam boating, and his responsibilities compelled him to make all the money that he could, without any regard to congeniality of pursuits.

In the spring of 1868 Judge Zuver came to the Missouri slope in Iowa; read law in Missouri Valley, Harrison county; was admitted to the bar at Magnolia, then the county seat, in June, 1869, and practiced in Missouri Valley and in Magnolia until he went on the bench. He was appointed circuit judge on the 7th of September, 1874, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. Addison Oliver, now in congress; was elected by the people the next month, to fill the unexpired term; was re-elected in 1876, and now holds the office, his term expiring on the 31st of December 1880. Before going on the bench he was regarded as among the best read lawyers in the judicial district, and since assuming the ermine he has exhibited his eminent fitness for the honor, he having most of the qualities which make a good jurist.

Judge Zuver was a whig in early life, and has acted with the republican party since 1860. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the Masonic Fraternity, and is a man of undoubted honesty and of high moral character.

The judge was first married in January, 1861 to Miss Mary J. Richardson, of Pennsylvania. He had six children by her and five of them are living. His present wife was Mrs. Josie Marshall, of Missouri Valley Iowa, married on the 15th of February, 1872.

Though a well read lawyer, the judge has only moderate literary attainments. Realizing his deficiency in this respect, he takes good care that his children shall be well educated. They are all in the graded schools of Sioux City, and his eldest son, in his sixteenth year, is the best scholar, of his age, in the school. His attainments are almost astonishing.

While in Pennsylvania and Harrison county, Iowa, the judge did much good work in the school board, and probably the cause of education has no warmer friend in the state. Sioux City has been his home since June 1875, and as a citizen the people are beginning to realize and appreciate his worth.