Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

Zacher, Alfred J.

Founder of The Zacher Company which deals in commercial real estate. His son currently owns it in 2012. He wrote the book, Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term and discussed it Saturday November 2, 2012 at the Allen County Public Library. The lecture was filmed by CSPAN2 Book TV, from CSPAN2 to air local lecture Author to discuss tough 2nd terms of presidents by Jaclyn Youhana pulished November 2, 2012 in The Journal Gazette newspaper. Alfred J. Zacher on the C-SPAN Networks: Alfred J. Zacher is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library. He also has a YouTube page Presidental Second Terms with several videos. The Twilight Zone goes to college: Fort Wayne's Al Zacher recalls his friendship with famed creator July 8, 2023 The Journal Gazette newspaper now on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Zehr, Dan

Olympian 1932 Los Angeles. As a 16-year-old South Side sophomore, Robert Daniel Zehr won the 1932 Olympic trials to compete in Los Angeles in the 100-meter backstroke. From Who are Fort Wayne’s Favorite… Olympians? by Blake Sebring published June 18, 2018 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.

Zimmerman, Guy

Owned a music store near South Side High School 1965-1997. See Guy Zimmerman by Mark Hunter published on whatzup.com.

Zollinger Family

Christian and Henry C. Zollinger on page 140 of the History of Allen County, Indiana, Publication date: 1880, Publisher: Kingman Brothers on Archive.org.
History of Allen County, Indiana, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of it's prominent men and pioneers. Also contains maps of its several townships and villages, listing farms and their owners. Christian and Elizabeth Zollinger photos on page 98

1. A History of the Zollinger Family

Zollinger, Charles A., Colonel

Colonel Charles A. Zollinger : seven-time mayor of Fort Wayne Publication date 1956, Publisher Fort Wayne : Public Library Board for Allen County on Archive.org.

Charles A. Zollinger on page 161 of the History of Allen County, Indiana, Publication date: 1880, Publisher: Kingman Brothers on Archive.org.
History of Allen County, Indiana, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of it's prominent men and pioneers. Also contains maps of its several townships and villages, listing farms and their owners.

Zollner, Fred

January 22, 1901 Little Falls, MN-June 21, 1982. Started the Zollner Pistons in 1941, helped form the National Basketball Association in 1949 in Fort Wayne, 1957 moved the team to Detroit. Fred Zollner enshrined 1999 in Basketball Hall of Fame on Hoophall.com saved on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine is slightly different than their current Fred Zollner page on the Basketball Hall of Fame on Hoophall.com. Fred Zollner on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

Fred Zollner's Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech Mar 22, 2012 on YouTube
Carl Bennet delivers his speech on behalf of Fred Zollner upon Fred's being enshrined to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1999. To learn more about Fred Zollner take a look at his official Hall of Fame bio

October 2 In 1999, Fort Wayne Pistons owner Fred Zollner is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Zollner helped lead the NBA into the modern age as founder and owner of the Fort Wayne Pistons. Zollner owned the Pistons when they won National Basketball League championships in 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946. He also contributed to the inception of the 24-second clock, the six-foul rule and the widening of the free-throw line. Zollner helped found and nurture the early NBA, which was formed when four teams from the then-National Basketball League - Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Minnesota and Rochester, N.Y. - merged with seven teams from the Basketball Association of America in 1948. In 1952, Zollner was one of the first to buy an airplane to transport his teams to away games. The league's Western Conference trophy is named after Zollner, who died in 1982. Bennett, 83, coached the Pistons in the National Basketball League for six seasons beginning in 1941-42 and went on to be the team's general manager for seven more seasons. The Pistons moved from Fort Wayne to Detroit in 1957, mainly because Zollner wanted the team to play in a larger market. ``The reason Fred belongs in, he wasn't the guy that put up the peach basket, but back in the 1940s and into the '50s and '60s, professional basketball was a real challenge to stay alive,'' said long-time Pistons official Carl Bennett. ``Fred hung in there from 1941 on, and he helped most of the teams that were in the league in some way, either financially or organizationally, just to stay alive. It's nothing like the NBA is today, but back then is when the seeds were planted, and people like Fred stayed with it and made it happen.'' Copied from an October 2, 2022 post by Fort Wayne Sports History on Facebook.

200 @ 200 published September 3, 2016 by WANE 15 News on YouTube.
Todd Pelfrey from the History Center joined First News Saturday with a cool item related to Northeast Indiana. Discusses Fred Zollner forming the Zollner Pistons basketball team helping form the NBA National Basketball league now the Detroit Pistons basketball team.

Zollner Pistons - Softball - Basketball

See our Zollner Pistons page.

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