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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Johann Georg Zimmerman |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2][3] |
11 Feb 1763 |
Maxatawny, Berks Co, Pennsylvania |
| Other? |
9 Feb 1765 |
Maxatawny, Berks Co, PennsylvaniaBirth-Alt |
| Baptism[6] |
11 Feb 1765 |
-Mertz Church, Rockland, Berks Co, Pennsylvania |
| Marriage |
8 Jul 1783 |
-Christ Church, Tulpehocken, Berks Co, Pennsylvaniato Susanna Margareta Strickler |
| Other[7][8] |
1 Oct 1798 |
Heidelberg Twp, Dauphin Co, PennsylvaniaTax 1798 |
| Death[4] |
20 Oct 1828 |
Smithfield, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania |
| Burial[5][4] |
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-Laurel Hill (Zimmerman) Cemetery, Minisink Hills, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania |
George Zimmerman bought on the eastern side of Brodheads Creek and founded Branchville. He did extensive farming, did a thriving general store business and operated a flour and feed mill. Zimmerman's place of business was located at a very convenient point for the accomodation of people living in that vicinity, but especially so for lumbermen from extreme ends of the township. In order to get their products, barrel hoops and staves, sawed lumber of all kinds, logs and railroad ties to a market which was at Philadelphia, they had to bring their products to the Delaware River to make them into rafts so as to float them down the river. Zimmerman had an eye for busness and since he owned a large river front, he opened up a road to the Bennekill and gave plenty of land to unload their lumber before making it into rafts. As this road turned off from the main road at his store, he naturally would get their trade at his store and mill, and if he took their products in exchange for his goods he not only made a profit on his goods, but also a profit on their lumber; he ran it down the river and sold it in a city market.
After his death in 1828 the business was carried on by his sons Daniel and John in the store, and Peter in the mill.
References
- ↑ Hoffman, Luther S. The Unwritten History of Smithfield Township, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania. (Artcraft Press, East Stroudsburg, PA, 1938)
pg. 15. - ↑ Compiler: Mrs. George Marsh & Mrs. Irving B. Seddon. Inscriptions from Cemeteries of Stroudsburg, PA, Monroe Co. and its surrounding areas.. (National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC, 1957)
pg. 32. (In August 2000 his tombstone was broken and unreadable.).
- ↑ Berks County Pennsylvania Births 1760 - 1770, Volume: Volume 2
Joh. George 11 Feb 1763 George and Maria Salome.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Compiler: Mrs. George Marsh & Mrs. Irving B. Seddon. Inscriptions from Cemeteries of Stroudsburg, PA, Monroe Co. and its surrounding areas.. (National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC, 1957)
pg. 32.
- ↑ Anonymous. Zimmerman Cemetery, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Minisink Hills, Monroe, Record Type: tombstone. (Monroe County Historical Society, Stroudsburg, PA)
tombstone written in German.
- ↑ Egle, William Henry. Notes & Queries; Historical, Biographical and Genealogical relating chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania., Call Nu. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1970)
Annual Volume 1900, Notes & Queries XV, pg. 77.
- ↑ United States Secretary of Treasury. United States Direct Tax, Location: Heidelberg Twp, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania, Film: 351604. (1 Oct 1798)
Building 272. Zimmerman, George Jr.
- ↑ -He owned a one storey 25' by 18' hewn log house. His listed neigbor was his father, George Zimmerman
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