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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Benjamin Franklin Zimmerman: Birth: 09 FEB 1883 in Canada. Death: 31 AUG 1947 in Seattle, King, Washington, USA

  2. George Samuel Zimmerman: Birth: 26 FEB 1885 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA. Death: 25 SEP 1976 in Amity, Yamhill, Oregon, USA

  3. Peter Christian Zimmerman: Birth: 17 AUG 1886 in Oregon, USA. Death: 28 OCT 1950 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA

  4. Catherine Zimmerman: Birth: 25 FEB 1888 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA. Death: 17 AUG 1888 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA

  5. Emma Zimmerman: Birth: 06 JAN 1889 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA. Death: 01 FEB 1889 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA

  6. Mary Zimmerman: Birth: 06 JAN 1889 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA. Death: 26 JAN 1889 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA

  7. Edward Orin Zimmerman: Birth: 10 JUN 1890 in Yamhill, Yamhill, Oregon, USA. Death: 18 JUL 1985 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Zimmerman Family Tree
Author:   Forrest Zimmerman
2. Title:   Census, Federal - 1880 - Island, Washington Terr., Whidby & Camain Islands, ED # 37
Page:   p.14 of 23
3. Title:   Biography of Christian Zimmerman
Author:   George S. Zimmerman
Publication:   Name: written 1974-75, privately circulated;
4. Title:   Song of Yamhill
Page:   p. 8 - 11
Author:   Gordon N. Zimmerman
Publication:   Name: Binford & Mort Publishing, 2005; Library of Congress # 2005007854;
5. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006;
6. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005;
7. Title:   Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000;
8. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002;
9. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004;
10. Title:   Christian Zimmerman Family Sheet #1
11. Title:   Find-A-Grave Web Site
12. Title:   Julie post on website dianneandpaul.net
Page:   18 Feb 2005
13. Title:   Christian Zimmerman Family Sheet #3
Author:   Rec'd from J. Rose - 18 Feb 2005

Notes
a. Note:   H161
Note:   1880 Census - "Cris" is head logger at a logging camp on Whidby & Camain Islands, Washington. His nephew, John Hopp is in his unit. Christian Zimmerman Family Sheet #1 says Christian has resided at Yamhill, Oregon from 1883 until death. His church affiliation is Wesleyan Methodist. The following story was written by Christian's son George: Biography of Christian Zimmerman, brother of Peter Zimmerman by George S. Zimmerman written at age 90, 1974, 1975 This story begins in spring of 1868, when father was 20 years old. He had been working in Minneapolis, Minnesota in flour mill and woolen mill during winter 1867-1868. He wanted to go west so traveled down Mississippi River to mouth of Missouri River. Voyage was by boat . As money was scarce with him, he took job on river boat going up Missouri River to Fort Benton Montana. One of his jobs was to load wood into boats boilers. As they neared Fort Benton at a wood loading dock, he saw where a white man delivering wood on steamboat dock, was murdered and scalped. His clothes were stolen from his body and he was left laying by the wood dock. At Fort Benton he took a job driving a team of mules hauling freight to Helena, Montana. This was the winter of 1868-69. This was a bitter cold job and he suffered greatly. In the spring of 1869 or 1870 he quit the teamster job at Helena. He met a man by the nane of Thomas Cruse. They took up a mining claim together and started working it at Nelson Creek. This was a very lawless country. Father never carried a gun in his entire life. They worked this claim together. At night thieves would come and rob sluice boxes. There was lots of gun play around. Father was used to this rough life. But one morning he had had enough. He rolled up his blankets and started West. He left everything to his partner, Thomas Cruse. He never went back or remained in contact with Mr. Cruse. After six months or a year, he learned that Thomas Cruse had struck it rich. He had quit the country for good and never regretted it. Lawlessness was everywhere. Would he be the next one to be scalped, or murdered by white men if he tried to protect his property at night. Before he left, he never signed any release papers with Thomas Cruse for his half of original claim. He traveled westward, working his way an opportunity afforded. He landed in Palouse country of South East Washington at harvest time. After Harvest, he worked his way down the Columbia River basin to Portland, Oregon. Just how long it took him, we have no record. How long he stayed in Portland and later the Mt. St. Helens area, we have no record. It was a rainy, cold winter and he took down with chills and fever. In Portland he met a man who advised him to go to Puget Sound country around Tacoma or Seattle. The chills and fever left him in this salt water country. The first winter he and his partner fished for salmon and packed them in salt for boats that came into Seattle Harbor. How long he worked at this, I do not know. The next record we have, he and another partner went up into Canada's Peace River Country and took up a mining claim. Just how well he fared there is not known. When I (George Zimmerman) was quite a small boy, I remember we had a teacup 1/3 full of gold nuggets from this undertaking. He then returned to Puget Sound and secured work in a logging camp on Whidby Island getting out logs for California bound log rafts. The company for which he was working went bankrupt and for his accumulated wages he took title to 40 acres of timber believed to have been on Vashon Island. He worked long enough in the timber industry to learn business. Logging was done by ox team. He went out and purchased 3 or 4 yoke of oxen and was in the logging business. We have his old time book which indicates he began logging June 12th 1877. We also have his old legal records that show he purchased a lot at Third and Bell Streets in Seattle and kept it until he had moved to Yamhill, Oregon during 1887. This land is now part of the Seattle Center Worlds Fair Complex. The 1880 U.S. Census show Zimmerman Logging Company with 12 people working. It shows fathers age as 31. The census also shows a Chinese Cook and Oilers. He left to go up Missouri River in 1868 and logging in 1877. These 9 years are very sketchy, and few positive dates can be set. In 1910 he sold the family farm 2 miles North of Yamhill Oregon to me. He then built a new house on a hill just to the North of this farm, that he had purchased in 1887 from the John J. Burton Estate, the original homesteading family of this land. In 1929 a man stopped at Zimmerman Bros. Elevator on Railroad East of Yamhill where my brother, Edward Zimmerman was working. He said his name was William A. Jackson and be had lived in Helena, Montana. He wanted to know if the Zimmermans here had been in Helena, Montana in the very early days. He said in 1914 there was a suit to clear title of land held by Thomas Cruse in Partnership with Christian Zimmerman who could. not be located, and was presumed dead. My brother Ed took the man home and fed him, for Mr. Jackson was down on his luck. Ed then asked his father if he had ever been in Partnership with Thomas Cruse in Helena, Montana. Yes he had been a partner and the strike that made Thomas Cruse a Multi-Millionare was made after Father had left. Christian Zimmerman had never told his four sons of his life in Montana until this time in 1929. He had never contacted Thomas Cruse. He never realized that for years he still owned a share in a very large mining operation near Helena, Montana. My Father, Christian Zimmerman died August, 1934 at Yamhill Oregon.


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