Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — DEATH OF COL. ZOLLINGER. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF COL. ZOLLINGER.

The Distinguished Mayor of Ft. Wayne Answers the Last 801 l Call. Col. Chas. A. Zollinger, Mayor of Fort Wayne, died in that city, Wednesday night, of neuralgia of the heart. He had been sick but a few days. Col. Zollinger was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1838. Emigrating to this country with his parents when ten years old, the family settled at Sandusky, 0.. shortly after removing to a farm near Ft. Wayne. After a varied experience as a laborer and blacksmith in various parts of the country, in 1861, at the beginning of the war of the rebellion, he-enlisted, and with the exception of a brief interval, when he retired from the service on account of ill health, he served until mustered out in 1865, being at that time colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Indiana Volunteers. Returning to his home at New Haven, Allen county, he resumed the blacksmith trade until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of the county. Subsequently he was < 1 cted mayor of Ft. Wavne. and served as United States Pension Agent four /ears under Cleveland’s first administration, being again elected mayor of his adopted city after his retirement from the Pension Agency. Col. Zollinger was a Mason of high rank and was also an Odd Fellow of note. ,