This collection contains correspondence regarding Henry A. Zug's employment with the United States Treasury Department, including a letter from Thaddeus Stevens recommending his appointment to the department, as well as recipes for Zug's National Bitters and teaching certificates of his daughter, Lola Zug, who taught in the Lancaster city schools for 47 years.
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Henry A. Zug was born in Penn Township, Lancaster County in 1826. He worked in as a customs agent in the United States Treasury Department in Philadelphia. He married Fanny Hershey in 1847. Zug also manufactured Zug's National Bitters with business partners, Dr. Jacob H. Kurtz and J. S. Walton. He died in Philadelphia in 1890. His daughter, Lola Zug, was a teacher in Lancaster city schools for 47 years before retiring in 1926.
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1928 class of 7th and 8th grade students at a school in Elizabethtown. First row at top: Raymond Krodel, Mary Rutherford, Windsor Walk, Helen Arndt, Clair Yoder, Dot Boyd, William Morgan, Helen Wentz, Kathryn Shearer, William Sheldon. Second row: Henry Wiseman, Irwin Royer, Edwin Gish, Ruth Walk, Edwin Keen, Bella Kapp, Alberta Blough, Gish Hoffman, Ruth Ginder. Third row: Donald Seiders. Fourth row: Albert Wolf, Naomi E. Kline. Fifth row: John bretz, Andrew Meade, Paul Erb, Adam Himmelsbaugh, John Becker, Harry Stoner, John Foltz, Francis Beiler, Charles Vanderslice, Robert Erb, Richard Martin. Sixth row: Elva Echenrode, Marcella Sheaffer, Anna Zarfoss, Martha Groff, Mary Shearer, Anna Fisher, Eleanor Byron, Ethel Downs, and Ruth Earhart. Teacher: Miss Florence J. Cauley.
