U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Zinn, Sylvanus W. (1859-1939) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 516 Sylvanus W. Zinn, born at the old Zinn homestead, one and a half miles west of Philippi, 1859; son of Alpheus and Lucinda (Gawthrop) Zinn, was married November 11, 1884, at the Adam Woodford homestead, to Lurina, daughter of Hensley and Caroline (Woodson) Harris. Children, Aubrey Lee, Ressa Ann, Rosetta, Lacy Glenn, Bertha Eoline, Gladys. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, is a Democrat, a farmer and inventor. He owns 85 acres of improved land two miles west of Philippi, and handles fine grades of stock. He introduced, crossed and led up a new variety of wheat called the Zinn's Golden, which is a cross of the Pulse and Golden strains. It produces as high as 36 bushels to the acre and is preeminently suited to the soil of this country, and stands the winters well. He has also crossed and has introduced a valuable variety of corn and in addition has introduced a new wagon, and a new spike-tooth lever harrow. He invented and introduced a new land-roller. He introduced the first machine into Barbour for weaving wire fence. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #9712 FULL-NAME: Sylvanus W. Zinn BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: July 13, 1939 at age 80y-2m-22d DEATH-PLACE: Terra Alta, Preston County, WV USUAL-RESIDENE: Philippi, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed (Mertie Hume Zinn) OCCUPATION: retired farmer FATHER: Alpheus Zinn (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Lerena A. Gothrop (born in W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Circulatory Failure due to Hypertensive Cardio-Renal-Vascular disease / Senile Dementia BURIAL: Mt. Olive Cemetery, Barbour County, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------