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Edwin August Zwanzig, partner with Gattermeir & Co. in the Olean Roller Mill, was born in Rock Island County, Ill., in 1854, and is the eldest in a family of twelve children born to August and Margaret (Fuhr) Zwanzig. The father was a native of Saxony and the mother a native of Buffalo, N. Y. They were married in Rock Island County, Ill., and the father was a practical miller by occupation. He worked in different parts of the United States, and was in Helena at the beginning of the late Civil War, but later went to Illinois. In 1869 the family moved to Missouri, and settled in Morgan County, where he built mill property, which is now known as the Zwanzig Mills. Edwin August Zwanzig was reared to the miller’s trade, and worked for his father until twenty-one years of age. He then worked in various places, and in 1878 and 1879 worked for Metzgar & Ham. In 1879 he went to Colorado, where he followed mining, and then, in company with his brother-in law, Joseph Gattermeir, returned to Miller County in the fall of 1880. In the spring of the following year he, in partnership with his brother, Bernhardt, and Joseph Gattermeir, bought the mill at Glean and fitted it up with all the new and latest improvements. Our subject’s brother, Bernhardt, was reared to farm life mostly, and is the manager of the outside work of the mill. Mr. Zwanzig and brother are good Republicans, and are much respected citizens.