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Source:
Centennial History of Coshocton  County, Ohio
By Wm Bahmer
Vols. I & II
Illustrated

- Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
1909

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  JACOB ZIMMERMAN is the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and fourteen acres situated in Adams township.  The land is rich and productive and the place in its neat and well kept appearance indicates the careful supervision of a practical and painstaking owner.  Mr. Zimmerman is one of the respected citizens of this community and has been a resident of Ohio for more than a half century.  He claims Switzerland as the place of his nativity, his birth having there occurred Ja. 28, 1838.
     His parents, Christ and Margaret Zimmerman, were also natives of the same country and, crossing the Atlantic to America in 1854, they located in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where the father purchased and improved land.  He was a school teacher by profession and was actively connected with the educational interests of this state for thirty-eight years.  He died in October, 1862, when about seventy-one years of age, for his birth occurred in 1791.  His wife survived him only about a year, passing away in 1863.
     Jacob Zimmerman is the only survivor in a family of thirteen children.  He remained with his father until he attained his majority and worked upon the home farm, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist.  When he had reached an adult age he bought a farm of seventy acres in Tuscarawas county, took up his abode there and continued for nineteen years, bringing the place into a high state of cultivation.  He then sold that property and removed to Coshocton county, where he bought the farm of one hundred and fourteen acres on which he now resides.  His persevering efforts, his diligence and thorough knowledge of farming methods have enabled him to make this a valuable property and from his fields he annually gathers rich harvests, which return to him a gratifying income.
     In 1859 Mr. Zimmerman was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Younger, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Aug. 16, 1840.  She was one of twelve children and her parents are now deceased.  Unto Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman were born: Ira, whose birth occurred Aug. 13, 1860; Christ, born June 10, 1862; John F., in 1863; David, in 1865; Imeno, in 1867; Susan, who was born in 1869, and is the wife of Herbert Shlagle; Daniel, born in 1871; Abraham, who was born in 1873 and died in 1902; and Anna E., who was born in 1873 and is the wife of Adam Young.  the living members of the family are all residents of Coshocton county and Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman have reared a family of sons and daughters who are a credit and honor to their name.
     The parents are members of the German Reformed church and have lived earnest, consistent Christian lives.  Mr. Zimmerman gives his political support to the democratic party and was assessor and trustee of his township, while for over twenty-one years he served as a member of the school board. In his official duties he has been found prompt and reliable and in all business affairs honorable and straightforward, so that he enjoys the full confidence and trust of those who know him.  He has never had occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in America, for here he has found good opportunities and by his earnest work and unfaltering perseverance has gained a creditable measure of success.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 359
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