BIOGRAPHY: Edward A. ZIMMERMAN, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 429
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EDWARD A. ZIMMERMAN, artist and photographer of Johnstown, this county, is a son 
of Charles Zimmerman, Sr., whose sketch appears above, and was born in 
Johnstown, May 29, 1847. The education of Mr. Zimmerman was limited to the 
common schools of his native town. Having an artistic turn of mind, he, in 1863, 
began its cultivation by pursuing lithographing work for a term of one year and 
three months. Then, after a short respite from this line of work, he further 
qualified himself for his craft by taking a course of instruction in portrait 
painting in the city of Baltimore, and then followed the latter business until 
1879. In 1880 he went West and located in Plattsburg, Clinton county, Missouri, 
where he successfully plied the art of photography for five years. At the end of 
that period he again returned to Johnstown, where he has since been actively 
engaged as a photographer and portrait painter.
     July 12, 1869, he married Miss Eliza Hicks, a daughter of Mr. Hicks. This 
marriage relation resulted in the birth of seven children Ernest, Kossuth, 
Garnet, Jacob, Guy, deceased; Paul and Fern, deceased. His first wife died March 
26, 1887, and he afterward married Minnie Hoskinson. To this marriage were born 
three children: Greeta, Helen and Ione.