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HENRY ZOLLMAN was born in 1821, in Owen Township, Jackson County, Indiana. His parents, Adam and Mary (Miller) Zollman, came to Indiana from Rockbridge County, Virginia and are of German and Irish nationality. They were characteristic pioneers, coming to a new country full of courage and enterprise. Adam Zollman was a soldier in the war of 1812, and Mary Zollman's grandfather was in the Revolutionary war. Henry Z. is the third child born to them, and for sternness of character and fixedness of purpose is much like his father. He was born and raised on a farm, and from choice has always followed that, together with stock raising, as a livelihood. How successfully he has followed this, his chosen calling, may be inferred from the fact that he began life a poor man (although he inherited what might be called a start, but not until in after life when he was over early struggles), and is now the heaviest tax payer in Jackson County, and is the owner of about 2,200 acres of valuable land, all in Jackson County, except about eighty acres, and his annual yield of corn from his bottom lands is about 20,000 bushels, to say nothing of the stock raising interest, which is extensive. He lives two and one-half miles from Medora, on what is known as “the Ridge," in a splendid country home. He has never been in official life, preferring the quiet life of a farmer. In 1843 he was married to Miss Nancy Hobson, daughter of Milbern Hobson of Jackson County. She died in 1845. To them one child (now deceased) was born. In 1849 he was again married to Miss Elizabeth Dodds, daughter of Andrew Dodds, of Jackson County. To this union there have been born ten children: Cynthia (Holland),Phoebe (Hughs), Sophia (deceased), Samuel T., George W., Thomas F., Florence, Alice, Henry J. and Elizabeth. He has three daughters at home and one son in the State University at Bloomington. Mr. Z. is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Democrat in politics. He made most of his money by dealing in stock. History of Jackson County, Indiana by  Brant and Fuller, Chicago, 1886, Page 646