Zimmerman, George Henry

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Class of 1859
    Full name
    George Henry Zimmerman
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    3
    Family
    Joshua Zimmerman (father), Elizabeth Zimmerman (mother), Henrietta Ann Rowe (wife, 1866)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Other
    Other Education
    Washington College, MD
    Occupation
    Clergy
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist

    George Henry Zimmerman (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    George Henry Zimmerman was born to Joshua and Elizabeth Zimmerman on September 20, 1838 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He prepared for undergraduate studies at Washington College in Maryland and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1859. While at the College he became a member of Phi Kappa Sigman fraternity and was elected to the Belles Lettres Society. Following graduation in the early summer of 1859, he studied as a Methodist clergyman and was accepted as a member of the Baltimore Conference.

    He filled various pastorates, including Moorefield, West Virginia between 1876 and 1879, at Easton, Maryland from 1879 to 1882, in Woodstock, Virginia 1886-1888, West River, Maryland 1888-1892, and Hyattsville, Maryland 1892-94. He was a presiding elder over the Roanoke District between 1882 and 1886 and over the Moorefield District between 1894 and 1898. In 1898 he took up the editorship of the Christian Advocate, shortly before his death.

    In October 1866, he had married Henrietta Ann Rowe of Charles County, Maryland and the couple had three sons. George Henry Zimmerman died on November 3, 1898. He was sixty years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “George Henry Zimmerman,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/z/ed_zimmermanGH.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Zimmerman, George Henry," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6942.