John M. Zimmerman and Josephine M. Blank

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Husband John M. Zimmerman ¹

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            AKA: John M. Zimmermann 2
           Born: 29 Sep 1849 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: Benjamin Zimmerman (1802-1865) 1
         Mother: Anna Mary Pifer (      -1873) 1

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       Marriage: 19 Jun 1877 3

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Wife Josephine M. Blank ^{2 3}

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           Born: 28 Dec 1849 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: Solomon Blank (1807-      ) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Weaver (1805-1895) 4

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General Notes: Husband - John M. Zimmerman

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He was born on the farm in Hempfield township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was sent to the common schools in his youth, and later attended the Delmont Academy and the Indiana State Normal School. After leaving school he taught for five years in Penn and Hempfield townships, two years in the borough of Ludwick and five years in the borough of Greensburg.
After retiring from the teaching profession, he was for a short time engaged as a real estate and insurance agent in Greensburg, and as a bookkeeper in Manor for his brother who was engaged in the lumber business. On May 1, 1888, he engaged himself with C. H. Fogg & Company, who were retail lumber dealers in Greensburg, and remained with them until their successor, J. Covode Reed, purchased the business. With them and with Mr. Reed, Mr. Zimmerman occupied the position of superintendent and manager of the lumber yards, and remained in their employ respectively for a period of over twenty-six years. He was also a school director for nine years, two years of which time he served as secretary of the school board and two years as its president.
In the spring of 1914 Mr. Zimmerman came out as a candidate for the office of postmaster of Greensburg under the new Democratic administration. There were four other candidates in the field, all of whom were reputable, prominent and well-known citizens. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Zimmerman was strongly endorsed by most of the banks of Greensburg and by a large majority of the members of the bar and business men. He was endorsed also by the Keystone Coal and Coke Company, the Jamison Coal and Coke Company, and by nearly all of the coal companies of the county whose offices were in Greensburg. The endorsement which possibly pleased him most came from the contractors who had for years been regular dealers with the lumber firms of which Mr. Zimmerman was superintendent. They united in signing a petition setting forth that, in all those years, Mr. Zimmerman had conducted the business so accurately that they could not recall a single mistake he had made in billing their lumber to them. As a result of this extensive and almost unanimous endorsement by the people of Greensburg there was really no contest when the time came to make the appointment, which was made on June 20, 1914, by President Woodrow Wilson.
Mr. Zimerman resided all his mature years in the borough of Greensburg, coming there on March 28, 1868. He and his wife were members and prominent workers in the First Lutheran Church of Greensburg.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 28.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 645.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 29.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 371, 645.