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LOUIS ZOLLINGER, brick-manufacturer, Wilkinsburg, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., Jan. 6, 1842, and is descended from the early Swedish settlers on the Delaware, of 1638. His grandfather, Jacob Zollinger, was a resident of Lancaster county, where his parents, George and Margaret (Long), the latter of German descent, were born. In 1828 they located on a farm in Westmoreland county, and twenty years later moved to Allegheny county. The father died in Fayette township in 1864, aged sixty-two; his widow, now eighty-two, resides in Wilkinsburg. They had ten children: Elizabeth (Robinson), in Sterrett; Mary (Michaels), in Erie; Nancy (Crone), Robert and William (deceased), Louis and John, in Wilkinsburg; James, in Lawrenceville; Josina (Jones), in Wilkinsburg, and Sarah (deceased). Louis attended the public schools of Fayette and Pittsburgh till eighteen years old, when he commenced work in a brickyard. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the three-months service in the 1st Virginia regiment, and afterward joined Co. B, 123d P. V. C. He was with the Army of the Potomac at Rich Mountain, Philippi, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and was mustered out in 1863. Resuming brickmaking, he established his present business at Wilkinsburg in 1880, in partnership with his brother. They purchased a plot of ground, put in improved machinery, and are doing a successful business. Their works are in Sterrett township, and their residences in the borough. Mr. Zollinger attends the M. E. Church, and has always been a republican. In 1864 he married Josephine, daughter of John and Sarah Bartley, of Butler county, of Scotch-Irish descent, and the children by this union now living are Charles, Nettie (wife of Jesse King, in Pittsburgh), Harry, Walter, Bertha, Lulu and Cora. William, who was the fourth, died when seven years old.