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GEORGE
A. ZIMMERMAN, one of the
well-to-do farmers of Green Creek township, Sandusky county,
and a citizen of high type, who is interested in all affairs of
public moment, is by birth a Marylander. He was born in
Frederick county, that State, October 29, 1830, and is the son
of George and Rosanna (Barrack) Zimmerman.
His father was of the old Pennsylvania-German stock,
and was born in the "Keystone" State. He was by trade a
shoemaker, and also engaged extensively in farming. He was a man
of thrifty habits, and by industry accumulated a competence. He
died in Frederick county at the age of sixty-four years. In
religious belief he was a Lutheran; while his wife was a member
of the German Reformed Church. The family of George
and Rosanna Zimmerman consisted of eight
children, as follows: William; Mary, now Mrs. Shank;
Wesley (deceased); Minerva, wife of Oliver
Lease; Barbara, wife of C. Myer;
Theodore Jacob (deceased), all of the State of
Maryland, and George A., subject of this sketch.
George A. Zimmerman was reared
in Maryland, attending the district schools and assisting on his
father's farm. In the spring of 1857, at the age of twenty-seven
years, he came to Tiffin, Ohio, and in the autumn of the same
year he moved to Sandusky county. On the 13th of September,
i860, he was married to Miss Mary Ira, a
native of Germany. The union of George and Mary
Zimmerman has been blessed by the birth of four children,
as follows: Francis (deceased) and Franklin (twins),
born December 5, 1861; Rosanna, born January 2, 1864
(died March 2, 1893), and George Wesley, born June
14, 1875. The son Franklin is a prominent minister of the
Ohio Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, receiving his
collegiate and theological education at Delaware, Ohio, and
Boston Theological Seminary. Rev. Zimmerman began
his ministry in 1889, and was married to Miss Mary
Grove, of Findlay, Ohio. Four children have been born to
them, namely: Ruth, Paul, Helen and
Kenneth. The younger son, George, is now engaged in
tilling his father's farm, and promises to soon be one of the
successful agriculturists of Sandusky county. Mr.
Zimmerman is a prominent and consistent member of the Green
Spring M. E. Church, being a liberal contributor to all the
Christian charities, and practicing in his daily walk all he
professes. Mrs. Zimmerman is no less known for her
many virtues, being a life member of of the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, and a cheerful laborer
in all Church work.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the
counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ.
J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 182 |
