- George W. ZIMMERMAN was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, February
15, 1828, son of
- Isaac and Elizabeth ZIMMERMAN. George W. was reared to farming,
but after becoming of age learned the blacksmith's trade, serving
an apprenticeship of two and a half years. He followed that trade
until 1863, or ten years after he commenced. He first came West
in 1853, locating in Stephenson County, Illinois, where he worked
at his trade for a year and a half. In 1855 he came to the town
of Spring Grove and bought 100 acres of land on Section 33, where
he built a house and shop. This property he sold in 1862. The
following winter he visited his old home in the East, returning
in the spring of 1863, and the autumn of 1863 he moved to his
present residence on Section 28. This farm he had purchased in
the previous year, 1862. The farm is composed of 155 acres on
Section 28, twenty acres on Section 27 and sixty acres on Section
20.
- On March 13, 1850, in Pennsylvania, George W. ZIMMERMAN was
married to Elizabeth
- KELLER; eleven children were born to them: William, born
in January 1852, who died in September 1853; Isaac, born in August
1853, who now lives in Oakley; Lloyd, born in February 1856,
who died in July 1859; Sarah Ann, born in March 1859, and died
in July 1859; Owen, born in May 1860, who was married to Melinda
WALTER; Franklin, born in February 1853; Clinton, born in August
1865; Jacob, born in March 1868; Ida, born in August 1870, who
died in March 1877; Elmer, born in April 1873; and Katie, born
in April 1879.
- Where George W. Zimmerman returned from the East, father
KELLER and family returned with
- him. Mr. KELLER, the father of Elizabeth, died in 1878. There
were eight children: Lucy, deceased; Sarah, who was married to
John REAHEZEN; Franklin, who was killed in the army; Jacob; Phebe,
who was married to A. SPAULDING; Caroline, who was married to
J. P. KILDOW; Rebecca, who was married to Isaac CLEMANS; and
Fanny, who was married to Charles MITCHELL.
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- Taken from "History of Green County, Wisconsin,"
(c)1884 Union Publishing; p. 1081.
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- Courtesy of Cathy Kubly.
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