Their collections ended up in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and comprised 14,774 specimens from 5,302 different species.
Ziegler studied at the University of Pennsylvania and, later, theology at the German Reformed Seminary in York.
He often accompanied his father on insect-collecting excursions, using the beat net method of collecting, uncommon in America at the time.
Ziegler's only entomological paper, a description of 36 new species of Coleoptera, was published for the assistance of Dr. Melsheimer, whose home was close to one of Rev.
There was nothing whatever eventful in his life, and besides his few entomological contributions, he was nothing more than a plain, plodding, honest country parson.