JOHN ZIMMERMAN, who is engaged in farming in Newton Township, Miami County, Ohio, is the owner of a forty-acre farm located in Section 24 of that township. He was born in Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, October 28, 1858, and is a son of Charles and Sophia (Trost) Zimmerman, both natives of Wittenberg, Germany.

After his marriage, Charles Zimmerman came to the United States and first located at Dayton, Ohio, where he worked by the day for about three years. He then engaged in farming in Montgomery County for several years, after which he moved to Miami County. Here he purchased a farm of eighty acres in Newton Township, where he lived and f armed the remainder of his days. He was also the owner of forty acres northwest of the home place, which he subsequently sold. Charles and Sophia (Trost) Zimmerman became parents of the following children: Charles, Henry and Fred (twins), Katherine, Joseph, John, Samuel, Margaret, Mary and Emma.

John Zimmerman attended what was known as the Quaker School in Butler Township, later the Inglewood School, and finally the Fall. Branch School in Newton Township, receiving a good common school education. He continued to work for his father until he reached the age of twenty years, when he began working by the month for William Shoultz. Returning home, he worked one summer by the month, and farmed on one-third share for two years. He worked on a farm near Troy two years, and served for a similar period as helper on a thresher. After his marriage in 1887, he was for a time located on his father's farm and then went to Darke County, where he rented and farmed for eight years. At the end of that time he returned to Miami County and lived four years on the Fink farm. He then farmed the forty-acre tract owned by his father for two years, at the end of which time he purchased his present farm from his father. There were but one and a half acres of timber on the place and this he cleared, and he also put in about 500 rods of tile for drainage. He erected all the buildings on the place and has a well improved and fertile farm. He follows general farming and has about three acres out in tobacco each year. He is classed with the substantial citizens of N ewton Township and is one of the stockholders of the Stillwater Valley Bank of Covington. Politically, he is a Democrat and for several years served on the School Board.

June 16, 1887, Mr. Zimmerman married Sarah Luella Jennings, a daughter of William and Sarah Ann (Kern) Jennings, and they have had two children: Franklin Ray, who lives on the home place; and one wlio died unnamed. Religiously, they are members of the Christian Church of Pleasant Hill.