BIOGRAPHY: John Solomon ZIMMERMAN, Perry Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Pages 1089-1090.
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    JOHN SOLOMON ZIMMERMAN, Falling Spring, Perry county, Pa., was born
  in Cumberland county, November 9, 1848. He is a son of William and
  Margaret (Bower) Zimmerman. His grandfather, John Zimmerman, was a
  farmer, and also kept a hotel for a number of years in Andersonburg,
  Perry co., Pa. His children are: Henry; Mary (Mrs. Henry Kell);
  George; Matilda, wife of Judge Joseph B. Garver, of Perry county;
  David, deceased; John, deceased; Margaret (Mrs. James Black),
  deceased; Eliza (Mrs. Ewing), deceased; and William. Mr. and Mrs.
  John Zimmerman are both dead. Mr. Zimmermanis maternal grandparents
  were of German ancestry. Solomon Bower was a farmer; he married Mary
  Fosselman. Their children are: Margaret, widow of William Zimmerman;
  John; Isabella (Mrs. F. Gray); Sara (Mrs. John Gray), mother of
  Sheriff Gray; Eliza (Mrs. William Skinner), Mr. Skinner was a major
  in our late war; Susan (Mrs. -------------  ); Solomon; and Mary
  (Mrs. William Bickley), died May 10, 1896. These children are all
  dead but Mrs. Zimmerman. Mr. and Mrs. Bower are both dead. William
  Zimmerman was a farmer, and a native of Perry county. He served the
  township as school director and supervisor. He married Margaret,
  daughter of Solomon Bower, of Perry county. Their children are:
  Lizzie (Mrs. A. F. Hohenshilt); B. F. G.; John; William H.; Reuben
  A.; Sarah A. (Mrs. Daniel Bosserman); Mary M. (Mrs. Stewart
  Lightner); and Dr. George L.., of Bloserville, Cumberland county;
  Madison F., died in 1881. Mr. Zimmerman was a member of the Lutheran
  church, in which he was for many years an elder. He died in 1887.
  Mrs. Zimmerman resides with her children, and is a Lutheran.
    John S. Zimmerman attended school until he reached the age of
  twenty-one, and remained with his father until he was twenty-five;
  then, in 1873, he began to farm for himself. For nine years he rented
  the Nelson farm above New Bloomfield, in Centre township. Since then
  he has lived on his farm in Spring township, which he has made one of
  the finest in the county. Mr. Zimmerman is a Republican; he has served
  as school director in Centre township, for three years, and in 1893
  was elected to a three years' term of the same office in Spring
  township.
    John S. Zimmerman was married November 12, 1874, to Mattie,
  daughter of George Washington and Fannie (Rice) Hench. Their children
  are: Daisy A.; Robert M.; Sallie J.; William N.; Roy H.; Eulalia T.;
  Rebecca May; Della F.; Ruth Esther; and Jacob L.; died April 2, 1886,
  age one year, one month and one day. Mr. Zimmerman and his family are
  all members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Zimmerman is deacon, and has
  held this office for six years. He has been superintendent of the
  Sunday-school for five years. He is a good citizen and is much
  respected.