ZEINER. Joseph - 1914

ZEINER, HECHT, BLOCK

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

JOSEPH ZEINER.

Joseph Zeiner, who has been successfully engaged in business as a merchant of Cherokee since the ist of January, 1910, dealing in clothing, mens furnishings, shoes, trunks and bags, enjoys an extensive and well merited patronage. His birth occurred in Haid, Austria, on the 12th of April, 1873, his parents being Moritz and Anna (Hecht) Zeiner. The father, who was a merchant, has passed away, but the mother still survives and makes her home in Budapest, Hungary.

Joseph Zeiner acquired his education in Europe and after putting aside his textbooks assisted his father for a time. When a youth of seventeen he crossed the Atlantic to the United States and took up his abode at Charles City, Floyd county, Iowa, where he clerked in a store for four and a half years. On the expiration of that period he embarked in business on his own account, in association with his brother Jacob, at Elma, Howard county, this state, the partnership being maintained with mutual pleasure and profit for fifteen years. At the end of that time he sold his interest to his brother and came to Cherokee, purchasing the stock of E. S. Block, who had been in business here for thirtythree years. He has conducted the enterprise independently to the present time and has enlarged the stock, now carrying a complete line of clothing, mens furnishings, shoes, trunks and bags. Mr. Zeiner employs four people and has twentyfive hundred square feet of floor space. He enjoys a large and gratifying patronage and is widely recognized as one of the enterprising and uptodate merchants of the city.

On the 3ist of August, 1904, Mr. Zeiner was united in marriage to Miss Flora Block, a daughter of E. S. Block, of Cherokee, Iowa. They have one son, Milton B., who was born at Elma on the 24th of June, 1905. Mr. Zeiner has fraternal relations with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to establish his home in the new world, for here he has found the opportunities which he sought and in their wise utilization has won prosperity.