BIOGRAPHY: Jacob 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. 428-9
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JACOB ZIMMERMAN, a son of Charles Zimmerman, the founder of the family in 
Cambria county, and one of the most prominent attorneys of the Cambria county 
bar, was born in Johnstown, this county. He obtained a good preliminary 
education, studied law under the late A. Koplin, and was admitted to the bar of 
Cambria county in 1868, and has practiced continually and successfully before 
that bar to the present time.
     On November 25, 1868, Mr. Zimmerman married Sallie Woodward, of Lewistown, 
Pennsylvania, and to that union were born three children: Laura, Edith and Emma. 
Laura had become the wife of Walter Haynes just one month prior to the memorable 
flood of 1889, in which they were both lost; Emma was also lost in the flood; 
Edith, now the wife of John H. Morley, superintendent of the tracks of the 
Cambria Iron company, was at that time attending college.
     Mrs. Sallie Zimmerman died on July 14, 1887, and Mr. Zimmerman married as 
his second wife Miss Lily Emerson, a daughter of Dr. Chauncey Emerson, of 
Johnstown, and to the union has been born one child, Jessie Lee, on November 13, 
1891.