Webster County

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Webster and Hamilton Counties, Iowa.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 113 Adams Street, Chicago. 1888.

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John Zimmerman, section 28, Deer Creek Township, has a fine farm of 160 acres located on sections 27 and 28, and is one of the most enterprising and successful farmers of the township. He was born in Switzerland May 3, 1840 , a son of Jacob Zimmerman. He came to the United States when fifteen years old and lived at Gloversville, New York, where he had an uncle and sister, until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. October 15, 1861 , he enlisted and was assigned to the Eleventh New York Battery, with which he participated in many of the most important battles of the war. His first engagement was at Manasses Junction, where he was captured, but was parolled three days later; subsequently he took part in the battles at Chancellorsville , Gettysburg , Culpeper Court-House and Mine Run. In 1864 he was with General Grant in the Wilderness campaign, taking part in the most of its engagements. He was discharged at the expiration of his term of service at Petersburg , Virginia , in the fall of 1864. He was a brave and gallant soldier, and has an honorable record. He was wounded in the right temple at Chancellorsville and in the left arm at Gettysburg . After his discharge he returned to Gloversville , where he remained until 1867, when he came to Webster County , and in April, 1869, settled on his present homestead. He was married in April, 1868, to Catherine Cline, a native of Germany . They have seven children – John, Fred, Rachel, Henry and Mary (twins), Charles and George. Mr. Zimmerman in his political affiliations has been a Republican.