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THE CANADUN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF REV. D. ZIEGLER. 



BY DR. H. A. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



As I have stated in my notice on Melsheimer, nothing is known of his 

 friend, Rev. D. Ziegler, except the publication of a paper on Coleoptera. 

 Again I am indebted for a large part of the notice now given to the un- 

 tiring kindness of Rev. J. G. Morris, of Baltimore, for many years a friend 

 and correspondent of Rev. D. Ziegler. Nevertheless, desiring to find out 

 something more of this father of American Entomology, I decided to go 

 to York, Pa., and had the pleasure of seeing his wife, Mrs. Ziegler, his 

 son, Dr. H. A. Ziegler, and the brother of Rev. D. Ziegler. 



Daniel Ziegler was born June nth, 1804, in Reading, Berks Co., Pa. 

 His father, and probably his grandfather, were born in America. There 

 is nothing known by the family as to when their ancestors came to 

 America. After he became of age he studied at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania for some time. Later he studied Theology at York, Pa., at the 

 German Reformed Seminary, under the presidency of Dr. Mayer. He 

 was married to Miss Eve Eyster, and had ten children, of whom two sons 

 are living. Kraeutz-Creek Church, six miles from York, was his first 



