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- [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), pages 417-418; biographical sketch of Levi Zook.
Levi Zook, son of Daniel Zook and Annie Forney (both natives of Pennsylvania), was born on 10 May 1831 in Marion County, Ohio.
- [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 314.
"Daniel Zook, the third to sell goods within the limits of Holt County, also began in Lewis Township. This was Daniel Zook, Sr., who, in the fall of 1841, came from Ohio. He sold a few goods in a house on a farm now owned by the Widow Polluck, ...about three and a half miles south of the site of the present town of Oregon. He remained here a very short time, when he returned home. Arriving again, in the spring of 1842, he built on the site of the town of Oregon, the first house ever erected in the place, as specially referred to under the head of Oregon."
- [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 322.
"In the fall of 1841, Daniel Zook, Sr., emigrated from, Ohio, and settled in Holt County, in the neighborhood of what was afterwards the town of Oregon. He brought with him a portion of a stock of merchandise, and, though not regularly engaged in the business, is said to have sold a few goods during that fall. In the following winter he went back to Ohio, and in the spring of 1842, returned with his family, which included his son, William Zook, who afterwards became a well-known banker of St. Joseph, Missouri, where he died in the spring of 1876; John Zook, who died in the spring of 1843, in Oregon; Sarah A. Zook, afterwards the wife of W. Hill, of Holt County; Daniel Zook, Jr., now (1882) a leading member of the Holt County bar, and Thomas, his twin brother, who died young; Levi Zook, a capitalist of Oregon."
- [S191] History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Holt and Atchison Counties, etc., (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882), page 322.
"In the fall of the same year [1842], Daniel Zook, Sr., died. On the occasion of his death, the county court located the present cemetery at the southeast corner of the town site, and the body of Daniel Zook, Sr., the pioneer merchant of the infant town of Oregon, was the first to rest beneath the sod of its virgin soil."
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