WI BIO - Green Co - ZIMMERMAN, George W.
History of Green County, Wisconsin. Springfield, IL: Union Publishing, 1884, 
p 1081

George W. ZIMMERMAN was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania [Columbia County in 
Pennsylvania? or Columbia in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?], 15 February 
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 [Spring Grove Township, 
Green County, Wisconsin] 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 13 March 1850, in Pennsylvania, George W. ZIMMERMAN was married to [Miss] 
Elizabeth KELLER; eleven children were born to them: (1) William, born in 
January 1852, who died in September 1853; (2) Isaac, born in August 1853, 
who now lives in Oakley [Green County, Wisconsin]; (3) Lloyd, born in 
February 1856, who died in July 1859; (4) Sarah Ann, born in March 1859, and 
died in July 1859; (5) Owen, born in May 1860, who was married to Melinda 
WALTER; (6) Franklin, born in February 1853; (7) Clinton, born in August 
1865; (8) Jacob, born in March 1868; (9) Ida, born in August 1870, who died 
in March 1877; (10) Elmer, born in April 1873; and (11) Katie, born in 
April 1879.

Where George W. Zimmerman returned from the East, father KELLER [Elizabeth 
KELLER's father] and family returned with him. Mr. KELLER, the father of 
Elizabeth, died in 1878. There were eight children [in the family of Mr. 
KELLER]: (1) Lucy, deceased; (2) Sarah, who was married to John REAHEZEN; 
(3) Franklin, who was killed in the army; (4) Jacob; (5) Phebe, who was 
married to A. SPAULDING; (6) Caroline, who was married to J. P. KILDOW; (7) 
Rebecca, who was married to Isaac CLEMANS; and (8) Fanny, who was married to 
Charles MITCHELL. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly