Rev. Robert Melanchthon Zimmerman and Mary Griffith

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Husband Rev. Robert Melanchthon Zimmerman ¹

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           Born: 3 Dec 1854 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Rev. Jacob Zimmerman (1817/1818-Aft 1914) 1 2
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       Marriage: 24 Jul 1879 3

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Wife Mary Griffith ³

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1 M Edgar Krauth Zimmerman ³

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2 F Marion Ella Elizabeth Zimmerman ³

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3 M Herbert Luther Zimmerman ³

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4 F Helen Lydia Zimmerman ³

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5 F Julia Aurora Zimmerman ³

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Robert Melanchthon Zimmerman

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He studied preliminarily in the public schools, pursued his collegiate preparations in the Leechburg Institute, and was graduated from the Teal College with the class of 1876. He was a student at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completing the regular theological course in 1879, and for the succeeding twenty years was busily engaged in pastoral work, organizing parishes and building churches. While still a theological student he organized and assisted in erecting Christ's Church, Parker City, Pennsylvania. His first pastorate, to which he was called shortly after graduation, was that of St. James Parish, Fenneltown, Westmoreland County, and while occupying that pulpit he organized and erected St. John's Lutheran Church in Saltzburg, Indiana County, performing a considerable part of the work of erection with his own hands. He was next summoned to the church Paul's Mission, located on Twenty-second street above Columbus avenue in the city of Philadelphia, and his untiring energies in behalf of that religious institution enabled it to become self-supporting in 1889, when he withdrew in order to transfer his labors to other fields of usefulness. In the latter year he began his labors in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, where he organized and erected the church of the Holy Trinity, and he resided there for the ensuing nine years, during which time he assisted in establishing the Evangelical Lutheran church at Penn Station, Westmoreland County, performed the pastoral work for the Harrison City and Boquet churches, preaching in both every two weeks until each became firmly established and self-supporting.
At the breaking out the Spanish-American war Mr. Zimmerman went to Cuba as an employe of the Federal government, and during the entire American occupancy of that island (1898-1902) he held the position of cashier of customs at Santiago, attending to the bookkeeping unassisted and handling over four million dollars without an error of even one cent on either side of his balance sheet. In April, 1902, he returned to Jeannette, where he then engaged in industrial pursuits. Mr. Zimmerman was one of the founders of the Greensburg Seminary and was a life director of that institution. [HWC 1906 III, 522]

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Griffith

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from Rochester, Beaver Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 521.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 629.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 522.