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Author: jzloret
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Hello,
RE: Charles Henry Zimmerman who was my great-grandfather.
He was born 15 Feb 1871 in Chicago.
Various census listed him as a salesman and flour salesman.
He was married to Ida Mae Amerson (B 1874, also in Chicago)
They had one child, my grandfather, John Harvey Zimmerman who was born Austin, Ill. in
1900.
My grandfather met Harriet McCormick at college and they moved to the east coast where my
grandfather was a professor of metalurgy at MIT for a period of time. A real smarty!
The family lived in Nahant, MA during that time.
I don't know very much about Charles H. except that he live in Illinois most of his
life but did die in Nahant in 15 Jan 1927.
I speculate that he went to live with his son's family at the end of his life.
I do remember my mother telling me that he was a gambler and this caused a lot of problems
in their small family.
I guess my grandfather compensated by being very successful himself, living in Westport
CT, working at Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) for many years.
I hope this has been helpful. I don't know a great deal about his Charles H.'s
life, but I am in touch these days with a long lost uncle and I'm hoping to pry some
info from him, but I don't want to scare him off. He promised to send pictures, so if
there are any of Charles, I will forward them to you.
Best regards, Jane
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