Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

JOSEPH ZIEGELMEIER, farmer; P. O. Virginia; was born in 
Germany, Nov. 5, 1821; son of Futus and Barbara (Biller) 
Ziegelmeier, both natives of Germany; he, a miller by 
occupation, dying in 1875, aged about eighty years; and she 
dying in 1877, at about the same age; they were the parents 
of sixteen children, Joseph being the oldest. Our subject, 
at the age of twenty-one years, in Germany, was drafted 
into the army, where he served about five years, and in 
1848 emigrated to this country, landing in New York. He 
first settled in Cincinnati, where he remained two years, 
working at the coopering trade. In 1850, he removed to Cass 
County, and began the coopering business in Beardstown, 
remaining there two years, when he removed to his present 
residence, and began farming upon eighty acres of land, 
which he bought, since adding to the same till his farm 
comprises 295 acres. June 14, 1849, in Cincinnati, he 
married Katrina Nemiller, a native of Prussia, by whom he 
has had seven children, six of whom are living: Lewis, 
Peter, Caroline, Barbara, Mary, Lucy.

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