From the Cyclopedia of Fayette County Biographies, 
Gresham & Co, 1889, Chicago, P. 484

File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by:
M. B urns <mburns@tea-house.com>

James A Zimmerman, a leading grocer of Connellsville, is a son of Jacob E
and Anna (Houck) Zimmerman, natives of Fulton and Franklin counties, Penna,
respectively. His father is one of the leading farms of Fulton county,
where he owns a fine farm of four hundred acres of land. 
	Tne grandfather of James A, George Zimmerman, born in Pennsylvania, was in
his day of o fht leading farmers and merchants of Fulton till his deth in
1867.
	Jacob Zimmerman, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was
born in Penna making the Zimmerman family one of the earliest that settled
in Penna. He was of German origin, and a farmer and miller of Franklin co.
J A Zimmerman's maternal grandfather, Micheal Houck, was also of German
extraction and followed farming in Franklin co.  James A Zimmerman was born
in Fulton county, Pa, February 27, 1851. Reared on the farm, educated in
the common schools of his native county, and at the Normal school at
Shippensburg, Pa. He afterwards graduated from the commercial college at
Williamsport, Pa, in 1876. At the age of twenty years he began teaching
district school in Fulton and Lycoming counties. In 1881 he went to Altoona
where he was engaged as a teacher in the commercial college. He continued
to teach here till 1883, when he located at Connellsville and started in
the grocery business, and has been very successful in building up one of
the most paying mercantile businesses at Connellsville. He is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church; of the Masonic fraternity, of Knights of
Pythias; of the Knights of the Golden Eagle; of the Senior order of
American Mechanics; of the Heptasophs and is a republican.  He was married
in 1884 to Miss Carrie Fields, of Hancock, Maryland. They have one child,
Etta. Mr Zimmerman is a stockholder in the Connellsville Flint and Glass
works, and is also interested in a loan association at Minneapolis,
Minnesota. He owns considerable property at Garden City, Kansas, and is one
of the most enterprising and progressive young businessmen of the county. 

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