From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean. 

pp. 570-571
HERMAN LINCOLN ZWICKER, who is extensively engaged as a liquor dealer in 
Wheeling, West Virginia, is a member of the first branch of the city 
council and has served capably as such since 1892.  He was born at White 
Oak, Ohio, July 9, 1865, and is a son of Joseph Otmer and Henrietta 
(Blum) Zwicker.
	The mother of Herman L. Zwicker was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, 
September 10, 1823, and came to America in 1841, locating at Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania.  On September 10, 1841, she was united in marriage with 
Conrad Tyson, by whom she had the following children:  Conrad; Armen; 
Otto, who was serving his fourth term as commissioner of Union district, 
Ohio county, at the time of his death, February 1, 1900; and Josephine, 
who is living with her mother at Park Grove.  In 1879 the last named, 
Josephine Tyson, was married to Melzar Orr, who died July 18, 1896, by 
whom she had the following children:  Vesta, born July 4, 1880, who 
married Otto Dieringer and lives on the old Tyson homestead; Herman, 
born April 18, 1886; and William, born May 1, 1888.  Conrad Tyson was a 
blacksmith by occupation, and was drowned in the Ohio River, May 4, 
1861.
	Three years after the death of her husband Mrs. Tyson formed  a 
second union, wedding Joseph Otmer Zwicker.  The latter was born in 
Switzerland in 1828, and graduated as a Lutheran minister in 
Switzerland.  He preached at White Oak, Ohio, then at Alexander, 
Kentucky, and moved from there to a farm in Monroe county, Ohio, in the 
meantime having a pastorate at Harrietsville, Ohio.  At the same time he 
preached at Louisville, Ohio.  His family moved to Wheeling in 1870, the 
father going West and dying in Missouri in 1897.  He and his wife became 
parents of the following children:  Herman Lincoln, the subject of this 
sketch; and William Tell, who was born in Kentucky, and died in 
Alexander, in that state.
	Herman L. Zwicker resided in the fourth ward of Wheeling with his 
mother, his brothers, Armen and Otto, and his sister Josephine.  He 
attended the public schools, and then worked in the Central glass house 
for three years.  He was subsequently employed in the Whitaker Mills for 
a period of seven years, until March 4, 1888, when he became a dealer in 
liquors, a business he has since continued.  He is a man of considerable 
prominence in the city, and in 1892 was elected to the second branch of 
the city council.  In 1894 he was elected to the first branch of the 
council, and served in such a manner as to gain a re-election in 1898, 
his present term expiring January 28, 1903.
	Mr. Zwicker was married August 21, 1890, to Kate West, who was 
born December 15, 1871, and is a daughter of William and Nancy West.  
Her father was born in Strasburg, now a city of Germany, then in France, 
July 18, 1825, and her mother in York township, Belmont county, Ohio, 
April 29, 1838.  They were married May 15, 1856, and had the following 
children:  George; William; Mollie; Samuel; Kate; and Maggie.  George 
married Emma Clark, and has eight children, namely:  John; William; 
Charles; Nell; May; Clemmie; Nellie; and Edward.  Mollie married George 
W. Showell, a ranchman, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and has three children, 
namely:  Maud; Tom; and Edith.  Maggie married Milton Beaver, of Cambria 
county, Pennsylvania, and has a son, Raymond, of Charleroi, 
Pennsylvania, whose occupation is that of a liveryman and undertaker.  
Mr. West died Mary 6, 1891, and his widow resides with her sons, William 
and Samuel, at No. 198 Eighteenth street, Wheeling.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Zwicker have three children, namely:  Herman L., Jr., born May 10, 1891; 
Stanley B., born August 3, 1897; and Otto O., born April 7, 1899.  Mr. 
Zwicker delights in sports, and loves to roam about in the woods and 
hunt and fish by day and night.  He resides at No. 198 Nineteenth 
street.