- Benjamin ZIMMERMAN was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania,
Oct. 19, 1830, a son of
- Isaac ZIMMERMAN. His father was a farmer and Benjamin was
reared on a farm. He was married to Amanda SAVAGE, who was born
in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, in 1836, and came to this county
in 1860, locating in Spring Grove and living the first eighteen
months in a house on the John H. WOODLING farm. He bought eighty
acres on Section 34 and built a house, into which he moved during
the fall of 1870. He has since resided there, and owns also thirty
acres on Section 26.
- Benjamin and Amanda ZIMMERMAN have had the good fortune to
be blessed with eleven
- children, all of whom are now living: William, born in June
1855; Galen, born in August 1856; Lavina, born in September 1859;
John S., born in December 1861; George T., born in February 1864;
Isaac A., born in October 1866; Sarah E., born in October 1868;
Catharine, born in May 1871 in Green County, Wisconsin; Riley,
born in June 1873; Maggie, born in October 1874; and Annie, born
in June 1877.
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- Taken from "History of Green County, Wisconsin,"
(c)1884 Union Publishing; p. 1093.
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- Courtesy of Cathy Kubly.
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