• Mr. Zellar was born in Hanover, Germany, and came to this country direct to Chicago in 1868. He was employed at the Eagle Tanning Works until 1911.1449

• Henry A. Zeller, currier, Whitehall, was born in Germany in 1849, and at 19 immigrated to Chicago, where he remained six years, learning his trade at the Union Hide and Leather Co. He came to Whitehall in 1874 and has worked ever since in the Eagle Tanning Co. He married Miss Augusta Schlater [sic], formerly of Hanover, by whom he has had five children, one of whom is dead. Residence Lake street.1443

• They lived on a farm [in Whitehall]. There is a road named Zellar Road where the farm was located. He was a tanner by trade.2648

• The story handed down to us was that Henry (Heinrich Albert Techner Zelle) Zellar was sent or brought to the U.S. by an aunt and her sons (number unknown) because his mother did not want him to have to serve in the war like his older brothers did. How could that be when his mother died (1853) when Henry was just 4 years old? Could it have been the step-mother said that and not his own mother?3557

• 1880 Census: Whitehall, Muskegon, Michigan. Age 31, b England [sic]. Tanner. Listed as Henry Seller.1697
• 1910 Census: Fruitland Twp, Muskegon, Michigan. Age 61, b Germany. Tanner. Parents b Germany.5222
• 1920 Census: Fruitland Twp, Muskegon, Michigan. Age 70, b Germany. Widowed. Farmer, Home Farm. Parents b Germany.5223