A dispute at a Canal Dover, Ohio saloon turned fatal when a one-armed stranger was forcibly ejected onto the pavement. William A. Ziegler (1855-1917), born to German immigrant parents Peter (1835-1919) and Genevieve Ziegler (1830-1914), grew up in Franklin Township, Tuscarawas County. Ziegler married Mary Gross (1857-1931) in November 1878, and, by 1880, the youngContinue reading “Two Glasses of Beer and a Tragic End: Canal Dover, 1886”
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