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Speaker Series Continues

Jeanne Finstein of Wheeling will discuss “The Other Zanes” for this month’s installment of the Fort Henry speaker series.

The program will be presented at West Virginia Independence Hall, 1528 Market St., Wheeling, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 25.

The program is free and open to the public.

The speaker series commemorates the 240th anniversary year of the first siege of Fort Henry and the 235th anniversary of the fort’s second siege. The series is co-hosted by the Wheeling chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Fort Henry chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and sponsored by Wheeling Heritage.

Finstein commented, “Two members of Wheeling’s Zane family are well-known — Ebenezer Zane is considered the founder of Wheeling, and his younger sister, Betty, is remembered for her heroic run for the powder during the second siege of Fort Henry. This talk will focus on the ‘other’ Zanes: Ebenezer’s brothers Silas, Jonathan, Andrew and Isaac and Ebenezer’s wife, Elizabeth McColloch.”

She said, “The other brothers settled various Wheeling and nearby areas, two were killed by Indians, and one remained with his Indian kidnappers and married an Indian princess. Elizabeth McColloch Zane was a sister of Sam McColloch, who made the famous leap that still bears his name. Their lives are fascinating and deserve as much recognition as their more famous family members.”

Finstein considers herself to be an amateur historian. Most of her research has focused on Wheeling’s Civil War and Victorian eras, so this topic has expanded her knowledge of the area’s earliest citizens.

She has a bachelor’s degree from West Virgina University, a master’s degree from Wheeling Jesuit Universtiy and a doctorate from WVU, all in mathematics education. She taught math at Wheeling Park High School, then worked at the NASA Classroom of the Future at Wheeling Jesuit.

Finstein now is a partner in Polyhedron Learning Media, an educational software development company. She is president of Friends of Wheeling and corresponding secretary of the Wheeling chapter of the DAR.

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