ALBERT J. ZIEGLER, a prominent businessman of Allentown, was born in 1857 on the family homestead. He was educated in the public schools, and a business college at Collegeville, Pa., after which he was a clerk in a country store for two years. In 1881, he removed to Allentown and entered the employ of the firm of Bittner & Hunsicker, wholesale dry goods merchants, where he remained for six years. He then established a wholesale wood and willowware, and carpet store, first at 723 Hamilton street, remaining there for four years, then having outgrown these quarters, he removed to Ninth and Hamilton streets, and in 1910 into his present store at 16 North Seventh street, where he employs a score of people. He has the largest establishment of its kind in the county. He is the owner of part of the old homestead farm, and 200 feet of valuable property in the business zone on Hamilton Street. His business has grown from a capital invested of $1,500.00 in 1886 to a capitalization in 1913 of $80,000. Mr. Ziegler has much valuable real estate, located in nearly every ward of Allentown.

Albert J. Ziegler was married in 1883, to Alice M. Mosser, daughter of Lewis Mosser, a prominent citizen of Mossersville. Pa. Issue: Fred M., single, who is associated with his father in business, and Warren Albert, who died in infancy.