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area from 1886. While many of his family members moved to
Boksburg (Ziervogel Gold Mining Company) Carl Frederick retired to Pretoria. His only child, Thomas Ritchie Ziervogel (1859–1937), became Master of the Masonic Lodge and Boksburg Mayor. Another of their sons, Jacobus Philipus Ziervogel, was the Justice of the Peace and Market Master at Boksburg. Their third son, Dr Jeremias Frederick Ziervogel (c.1835–1905), became the Boksburg District Surgeon and the first Master of the town's Masonic Lodge (1893–1895). Their daughter Anna Susanna Ziervogel (1832–1909) married Gottfried Andreas Watermeyer in 1850, and was mother to
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Molteno's first cabinet. A farewell party was held in his honour by his parliamentary colleagues, and in his farewell speech he expressed contentment with the political state of
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in 1873, where he established a branch of the Cape
Commercial Bank and settled at "Oak Lodge" on Bosman street. His sons and grandchildren accompanied him and, through persistent and effective lobbying of the Transcaal government, they attained a range of influential appointments. Nonetheless, the
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In 1824, aged 21, he married the 15-year-old Anna
Susanna Maré, and the couple had a total of 7 children. Their eldest son Carl Frederick Ziervogel (1826–1896) was magistrate of the Zoutpansberg area in 1877. Gold was found on his farm Leeuwpoort, which became the location of the Boksburg mining
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All admired his shrewdness, knowledge and ability, but in some way he came to be looked on as some sort of mystery: no one could tell when he had spoken whether there was not as much kept back as had been uttered; and he never became the political leader his talent entitled him to become ... men
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to weaken and reduce the Cape parliament into a powerless council. After a long and bitter struggle the move was finally defeated, and the elderly
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Ziervogel was an orphan, born in Cape Town, and the third son of immigrant parents of
Swedish extraction Carl Ewald Ziervogel (1756-1803) and his second wife Anna Maria Auret (1778-1806). Jeremias was raised by an aunt in
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where he practiced as an attorney, managed a bank and founded a business. In 1847 he purchased the old
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