BIO: Emanuel Zimmerman, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLIX.

         LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF NEW CUMBERLAND.

  EMANUEL ZIMMERMAN, retired, P. O. Eberly's Mills, the only son of 
Peter Zimmerman, now living in Cumberland County, was born on the 
homestead, in this county, December 8, 1818.  His father was born in 
1776, in Lancaster County, Penn., and there married Esther Martin, also 
born in the same year.  When the Zimmerman family came to Cumberland 
County there was no bridge across the Susquehanna, and trains were 
forded, and goods carried over in boats.  The land now owned by the 
family was then unimproved, and the fine houses and barns, with the 
exception of Henry Zimmerman's stone house, have been erected since 
their coming.  Of their twelve children, Emanuel is the youngest and 
the second one born in this county.  October 22, 1844, he was married 
to Susannah, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Hess, born in York 
County, Penn., March 4, 1825.  They commenced housekeeping on State 
Hill, in an old tenant house, now the property of J. C. Comfort.  In 
1859 Emanuel Zimmerman made his first purchase of land, 

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and every thing in the way of improvements has been done by him.  The 
fine house and extensive barns were erected in 1860, and are models of 
architecture.  Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman are parents of five sons and four 
daughters:  Joseph, George, Elizabeth, Anna, Jonas, Mary, Rebecca, Levi 
and Isaac.  Joseph Zimmerman married Mary J. Blair, George married 
Adaline Crisinger, Elizabeth is the wife of Rudolph Hartzler, Annie is 
the wife of John Musselman, Jonas wedded Susanna Shoop, Mary is the 
wife of David C. Blair, and Isaac married Agnes Huston.  Nearly half a 
century ago Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman were made members of the Mennonite 
Church; that was before their marriage, and their love for their 
Creator has never been dimmed nor their family circle broken by death.  
They have now seventeen grandchildren and a family of whom any parents 
may feel proud.