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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Zinser, John G.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1806-1883
History
John G. Zinser (1806-1883) was an early Evangelical Association minister. He entered the ministry in 1828 and served for fifty-four years. Zinser was involved in many of the first publishing efforts of the denomination and was a member of the first Board of Publications. In 1864 he also appointed the first superintendent of the first Evangelical Association orphanage in Tiffin, Ohio, which was founded to house orphans of casualties of the Civil War.