Andrew Zeller was the fifth Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
He resided in Berks County, in Eastern Pennsylvania.
He was raised on a farm, and would have been familiar with the duties and trials of a farmer's life, which in that day were not few.
His education would have been very limited, comprising a knowledge of but the simplest branches.
Zeller was known to often repeat the following story from his early boyhood: