updated 03/16/2010

Jacob & Minnie Zahn family, 1901

back: Jacob, Louise, Mary, Frank & Minnie
middle: Carl
front: Anna, Jacob, Katherine, Walter

The photo was taken before the birth of Lena, Henry & Hugo

Biography of Jacob Zahn & Gravestone of Jacob Zahn in Pleasant Grove cemetery
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Minnie Zahn Wilhelmina "Minnie" Miene Zahn, 3rd wife of Jacob Zahn. Minnie was born April 5, 1876 in Nienberg, Hanover Province, Germany. At the age of 15, she immigrated with her brother, Otto Friedrich Miene, from Bremen on the ship Gena.

Wilhelm Miene August Dietrich "Wilhelm" Miene, father of Minnie Miene Zahn. Wilhelm was born May 25, 1842 in Dresden, Hanover, Germany. He worked in a flour mill in Germany prior to his immigration to the U.S. in 1893. Wilhelmina "Minna" Charlotte Dorothea Reinhardt was the 2nd wife of Wilhelm and the mother of Minnie. Minna was born Dec. 2, 1850 in Schlessinghausen, Hanover, Germany, the daughter of Dietrich Frederich Conrad Reinhardt and Dorothea Wilhelmina Charlotta Englehardt.

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Louise Zahn Westphal The infant is not identified.

Jacob Eichhorn & Mary Zahn marriage October 10, 1901

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Carl Zahn family Carl, Edwin, Lillian, Mildred, Ethel and Doretta (the baby) South Dakota, 1930

Carl Zahn age 69, August 1958

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Anna Zahn Kohl & her first born child, Bernice

Children of Anna Zahn Kohl:

Bernice Kohl

John Kohl

Margery Kohl

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Hugo Zahn

Hugo and Rosena Zahn

Hugo (left) and Henry Zahn standing in front of Hugo's West McGregor Gas Station.
Henry's sandwich shop is on the right in the photo.
Photo is ca late 1920's - early 1930's

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Zahn siblings L-R: Anna Kohl, Lena Kleinow, Henry Zahn & Katherine Atchison

Zahn sisters L-R: Katherine Zahn Atchison, Mary Zahn Eichhorn & Anna Zahn Kohl

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Zahn granddaughters Bernice & Margie Kohl (back) Laura Atchison (front)

George & Betty Atchison Son of Katherine Zahn Atchison

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Jacob Zahn decendants gathering in McGregor, ca 1950

Back L-R: Clifford Westphal, Bill Clark, Earl Kleinow & wife Mildren, Ethel Zahn, Mrytle & Henry Zahn, Lena Kleinow, Jean Zahn, Pauline Westphal, Anna Kohl, Glen Westphal, Katherine Atchison, Doretta Zahn and Lillian Fritz

Front L-R: Cordell Westphal, Glenda Westphal, Lester Westphal, Mary Rose Westphal, Bonnie Fritz and Jaunita Edwards

2007 Zahn family reunion article & photo from the North Iowa Times, pg 7

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~photos were contributed by Joye Kohl from the family collection. Interested researchers can contact John & Joye Kohl at their email address found in the surname registry for Zahn

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