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WILLIAM ZIOCK Heinrich Wilhelm (William) - was born in 1830 in Hattingen, Westfalen, Germany and was the son of Heinrich Ziock and Sophie Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schaefer. William was christened in the Catholic Church as Heinrich Wilhelm Ziock. It appears as though William was the first Ziock to come to America arriving here circa 1847. In 1850 William was living with a Bartlett family in Webster, Worcester County, Massachusests and later resided in Pennsylvania. I found the following info on an infant but don't know how he is related to this William:
William, Sr. applied for United States citizenship in Philadelphia in 1852. His application gave his age as twenty-two and stated that he had resided in the United States for at least five years and appears to have been finalized in 1855. I had always thought that William then came directly to St. Louis until I found the following in the internet:
CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH BOLLINGER & WILLIAM ZIOCK:
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The Book of St. Louisans http://books.google.com/booksid=MD8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=Bertha+ Ziock&source=bl&ots=9SSBwND8Aj&sig=FzG5A02v_IZJBfAZOoCIXyRgn8&hl=en&sa=X&oi= book_result&resnum=3&ct=result
History of the St. Louis Fire Department,
with a review of great fires and sidelights upon the methods of
fire-fighting from ancient to modern times, from which the lesson of the
vast importance of having efficient firemen may be drawn. St. Louis
Firemen's Fund.(St. Louis: Central Publishing Company, 1914).
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ILLINOIS HISTORICAL SURVEY
GROWTH AND ESTABLISHMENT
.......While the Nelsons have
purposely laid the emphasis on mechanical
perfection, their competitors have been making the most of the old pat- ents. In 1898 William Burson, partner of John Nelson from 1875, estab- lished a large factory. It uses the old Nelson machine somewhat modified. The capacity of the machine is low, but, nevertheless, the net earnings are high. The Burson factory makes a specialty of ladies' hose of a lighter quality. Another large enterprise founded on Nelson's invention is the Rock- ford Mitten and Hosiery Company. Of late years still another plant has come into existence, called the B. Z. B. Co. (Brown, Ziock & Burson).
These results show what the original
John Nelson invention has meant
to Rockford. But the Nelsons have not altogether held aloof from prac- tical production. Their factory, founded in 1892, and known as the For- est City Knitting Company, has a present capacity of 3,000 dozen pairs per day. The total capacity of all Rockford knitting concerns may be roughly estimated at 15,000 dozen pairs of hose per day. http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/oca/Books2007-10/swedishelementin00olso/swedishelementin00olso_djvu.txt
St. Louis Public Schools - Annual Report - 1877
Ziock, Wm.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0Xg4PuLzRLIC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=Bertha+Ziock&source=bl&ots=29sepP_
tDe&sig=BOpgLhsYKHhcj81Q2OmC800IGDk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Rockford Mitten & Hosiery Company The Rockford Mitten Company, founded by Thour Munthe John Nelson, and William Talcott, began operations in 1879 and incorporated on November 29, 1881 under the laws of the state of Illinois for the purpose of manufacturing mittens and gloves. During the early years of its existence the company principally manufactured leather gloves either lined with material knitted on the same machine used for knitting stockings or unlined. The St. Charles Woolen Mills of St. Charles, Missouri, William Ziock, president, supplied most of the yarn used at that time. Because of his long and successful career in the knitting business, the company invited Mr. Ziock to consolidate the St. Charles Woolen Mills with the Rockford Mitten Company. Mr. Ziock agreed to the proposed merger, took the assets of his store into the new organization, and in 1885 consolidation took place; the new company became the Rockford Mitten and Hosiery Company. Almost immediately, leather glove manufacturing discontinued and the manufacture of hosiery became the primary business. The company introduced yarn, stockings, blankets woolen piece goods to its line as business expanded. On October 28, 1918, the company changed it name to the Rockford Textile Mills, Inc.......................
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