Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Grant Co.

JAMES ZINN was born in Grant County, Ky., February 10, 1827, and was the
fifth in a family of twelve children born to Joseph and Nancy (Taylor)
Zinn.  He was a farmer all his life, and died January 3, 1875.  Joseph
was a son of John and Elizabeth (Kizer) Zinn, was born in Pennsylvania,
and in 1796 came to Kentucky, and settled in Grant County.  John Zinn
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and Joseph was in the war of
1812.  Nancy (Taylor) Zinn was a native of Kentucky, and a daughter of
Robert and ________ (Raymond) Taylor.  May 15, 1854, James Zinn married
Miss Melissa F. McMillen, daughter of George W. and Cornelia (Field)
McMillen.  G. W. McMillen was a native of Ohio, and his father served
in the patriot army of the Revolution.  Cornelia was born in Mason County,
Ky., and was the daughter of WIlliam Field, a native of Virginia.  To James
Zinn and wife two children were born: Lillie, who married Alvin Lowe,
February 17, 1886, and William J.  William J. Zinn, only son of James
and Melissa (McMillen) Zinn, was born in Grant County, Ky., July 20,
1860, was reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty began the study of
dentistry, under his uncle, George A. McMillen, of Illinois.  In 1882 he
entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, and graduated in 1884.  In
the last named year he began practice in Missouri.  In February, 1886, he
located in Williamstown, Grant County, where he now has a lucrative
patronage.  He is a member of the O. O. O. F., of which order his father
was also a member.

Zinn Taylor Kizer Raymond McMillen Field Lowe
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Mason-KY PA OH IL MO VA

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