Philip Ziegler was born in Switzerland in 1734 and came to the United States in 1746. His family settled in Pennsylvania where he married Regina Reguel and they had eight children. Information on many of his descendants who remained in Pennsylvania and some background on the cemetery and meetinghouse built on his property where he and his descendants are buried is included in this material. Includes Ziegler, and related families.

Philip Ziegler immigrated in 1746 to a farm near Rehersburg, Berks Co., Pennsylvania and married Regina Reguel. He died after 1770.

Contains information on the Ziegler and Nelsen families. Jacob Ziegler was born in 1866 in Illinois. He married Frances Matilda Stumpf (1866-1949) in 1888 in Iowa. He died in 1936 in Iowa. Jens Nielsen/James Nelsen was born in 1859 in Denmark. He immigrated to the United States in 1882 and settled in Iowa. He married Johanne Marie Larsen (b. 1865) in 1888. James died in 1919 in Iowa.

Fred Glick was born in Leindenback, Germany on 29 October 1841. His father was John Frederick Sr. and Christina Klink Glick. Fred came to America alone in 1861. After serving in the war, Fred met Margaret Glasser, who had been in the United States ten years before he came. Fred and Margaret settled in Kansas after living in St. Joseph, Missouri which they considered their first home in America. The couple had ten children. Margaret died in 1928 and...

Phillip Peffer married Mary in 1773 in Holland. John Failor married Anna Ziegler about 1830 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.