Surnames: POWER, MATTHEW, ENGMAN


A native of Ohio, Mrs. Minnie B. Zastrow was born at Beverly, April 4, 1868, the youngest child of eight children born to Charles M. and Martha W. (Power) Matthew, natives of Virginia who were farmers in Washington County, Ohio. The father was a deacon in the Primitive Baptist Church. Minnie B. was educated in the public school. She learned gardening and engaged in business for herself; later she engaged in the grocery business in Beverly until she disposed of it and started a broom factory as well as running a knitting factory. In 1901 she married Fred William Zastrow, a native of Germany, and in 1902 she sold her factories and removed to Chehalis, Wash., where she started the Jersey Dairy and in time built up a splendid herd. Purchasing a farm she was in the dairy business there until 1919, when she sold her ranch and shipped her best cows to Santa Cruz County, Cal., and ran a dairy as well as being proprietor of the Washington Hotel at Boulder Creek. In November, 1921, she removed to Los Gatos and established the Jersey Dairy with Headquarters at 188 Loma Alta Avenue, where she is furnishing her patrons with splendid service in her line.
Mr. and Mrs. Zastrow have five children: Leah, is Mrs. Engman and resides in San Francisco; Ruth, also of San Francisco; Esther, Paul Matthew, and Charles Joseph. Mrs. Zastrow is a literary woman and has written many poems and also wrote and published the book, "Unity and Variety of Truth," and she has just completed "Banner of Truth or Faith," a book against Russellism. She is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church and has always been a close student of the Bible.

 Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California,  published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1307
transcribed by Joseph Kral