I am researching a well known family in MN. Their origins are France,
although many came from Basel, Switz, and Germany. If you could take the
time to read below. Thank you, Janice Buchanan
1. Eduard Edward ZIMMERMANN b. 26 April 1820 Strasbourg, France
+ Anna Barbara "Babette" SCHOTTEL b.22 December 1815
2. *Eduard Oscar "Edward" ZIMMERMANN b. 29 September 1842 Strasbourge,
Department du Bas Rhine, France d. 7 August 1908 St. Paul, Ramsey, MN.
+ Isabelle _________
3. Edward 3 Una
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from: HISTORY of RAMSEY COUNTY and the CITY OF ST. PAUL, including the
EXPLORERS AND PIONEERS OF MINNESOTA by Rev. Edward D. Neill and
OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF MINNESOTA by J. Fletcher Williams
Minneapolis Morth Star Publishing Company 1881. book at San Diego Pub Lib.
*Edward Oscar Zimmerman, oldest son of Edward Zimmerman, was born in
Strasbourg, Department du Bad Rhine, then in France, September 29th, 1842.
Came to this country with his parents in 1848, and eight years later to St.
Paul. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Sixth regiment
Minnesota infantry and wad promoted lieutenent in December, 1864, serving
until the close of the war. He then engaged as a traveling salesman with
Auerbach, Finch and Scheffer and their successors, and has been with them
sixteen years. Meanwhile he has been interested with his brother, Charles A.
Zimmerman, in the photographic trade.
3. **Karl Adolph "Charles A." ZIMMERMANN, Sr. b. 22 June 1844
Strasbourge, France
+ Ida _______
4. Ida 4. Charles 4. Nellie
**Charles A. Zimmerman was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1844. Came to
America in 1848 and came to St. Paul. At the age of fourteen he made his
first attempts in the art of photography, by the aid of a few books and a
rude camera construsted by himself. He entered the Whitney gallery as a boy,
working for eight dollars per month, and gradually worked his way to
ownership. Subsequently he purchased a building on Third street, the four
stories of which are devoted entirely to photography, making it one of the
largest galleries is the United States. In 1871 Mr. Zimmerman was awarded
the Philadelphia gold medal for photography, and in 1876 the centennial gold
medal for the same. His literary works embrace contributions on light optics
and the chemistry and the working of processes: papers to children in St.
Nicholas: papers on outdoor sports and rod and gun abound in the columns of
Forest and Stream, Chicago Field, and Scribner. His best known water color
paintings are. "The Light Shell", "Trying for a Double", "In
The Gloaming"
and "Interupted". The copyright for the first two netted $3,000. His
largest painting "Damascus Commandery Encampment" was finished July 1st,
1881. Mr Zimmerman has held the office of secretary and treasurer, of the
St. Paul Sportsman's Club, for a number of years. In 1881 he purchased the
placed in successful operation a fleet of fine pleasure steamers on Lake
Minnetonka.