Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Zimmerman, Wesley V 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Wesley V. Zimmerman, proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel and Restaurant at 
Erie, is a son of John and Rachel (Fuller) Zimmerman, and was born in 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Jan. 12, 1840. His father is a native of that State, 
is a farmer by occupation and resides one-half mile north of Spring Hill, this 
county. The mother of Wesley is also a native of New York and is living with 
her husband as above stated. Their children were nine in number, as follows: 
Cordelia, wife of Hiram Gilmore, a farmer in Medicine Co., Cal.; Mary A., wife 
of Levi Fuller, a resident of Eureka Springs, Ark.; John D., deceased; Edwin, 
a butcher in Prophetstown, this county; Alice, wife of George Clifford, at 
work in the pineries of Minnesota; Annie, wife of Clements Merrill, a farmer 
in Iowa; George, a wholesale and retail hardware merchant in San Francisco, 
Cal.; Frank, a farmer near Spring Hill, this county; and Wesley. Mr. Zimmerman 
was reared on a farm, and on attaining adult age he followed lumbering during 
the winter seasons. He was married in Salamanca, Cattaraugus Co , N. Y., Feb. 
20, 1864, to Miss Mary P., daughter of James K. (a lumberman residing in New 
York) and Elmira (Kilbourn) Webb. Her mother is deceased. Mrs. Z. was born in 
Warren Co., Pa., July 14, 1845. They have had five children, three of whom are 
living. The record is as follows: Allie, born March 18, 1865; Webb D., born 
May 22, 1866, died Dec. 2, same year; Alden, born July 25, 1867, died Dec. 17, 
same year; Frank R., born April 2, 1872; and Fred, born Feb. 18, 1877. Mr. 
Zimmerman came West to a point near Spring Hill, this county, in 1868, where 
he farmed one year, after which he engaged in railroading for several years. 
In 1876 he came to Erie and opened a restaurant, which he conducted a short 
time and then took possession of the St. Nicholas Hotel, which he ran for a 
time. He afterward opened a saloon, which business he followed until the 
spring of 1883. In April, 1884, Mr. Zimmerman rented the St. Nicholas Hotel, 
and has continued to conduct the same as a first-class house. He can 
accommodate from 15 to 20 guests, and keeps adjoining a restaurant and ice-
cream parlor, and also a saloon, and is doing a good and increasing busines. 
The traveling public will find the St. Nicholas one of the pleasantest places 
in the county.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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