Doctor, businessman, social organizer, lodge guru -- Zachariah had it all in the 1860s.
He owned the Grant House, the hotel named in honor of the man who was running for President that year. Then he sold the hotel to L.B. Doyle, who was in the army that Grant defeated. Name that tune, boys.
Ferguson was one of the first directors of the Three-County Asylum for the Poor, located north of Blooming Grove, in the 1830s. Much of the background on these topics is covered in the blog.
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