DANIEL ZOOK

ZOOK, HARDMAN

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/16/2009 at 05:00:03

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

DANIEL ZOOK, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Unionville; born in Bedford Co., Penn., in 1824; when 4 years of age, his parents removed to Wayne Co., Ind.; at the age of 7, his father died. Nov. 17, 1844, he married Miss Margaret Hardman, who was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in 1823. In 1855, wth his own family, his mother and two brothers, he came to this county and had, on reaching here, all told $200 but on taking of last census, his property was appraised at a few dollars less than $10,000; he now has 107 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre, all made at grain and stock growing. Mr. and Mrs. Zook are members of and he the Pastor of the German Baptist Church in their township; has been in the ministry for twenty-three years and has been Pastor of the church here for eight years.