Peter Zimmerman, Jr.

Memory of Paula Koch: Grandpa Peter Zimmerman was from a very large and poor family. He immigrated to America with his sister (McDonald). He was a stone mason and travelled around northern Wisconsin building railroad bridges. This left Josephine home alone for months at a time caring for Gladys, Albert, Leona, and ‘Nick’.

He was a stem old German who refused to attend the wedding of Gladys to an Irishman, John J. Maxwell. There was a story of animosity between Germans and Irish in Menominee. Apparently in a previous generation, a German priest was gunned down during mass while saying Sunday mass by an Irishman. The wound in the German/Irish community remained an unabridged chasm.

Name: Peter Zimmermann
Arrival Year: 1875
Arrival Place: Wisconsin
Primary Immigrant: Zimmermann, Peter
Source Publication Code: 5475.1
Annotation: Emigrations from the former Prussian part of Saarland in the 19th century. Date and port of arrival. Extracted from archives in Saarland, county archives in Saarbrucken, and the main archives in Koblenz. Date and place of birth, port of emigration, inform
Source Bibliography: MERGEN, JOSEF. Die Auswanderungen aus den ehemals preussischen Teilen des Saarlandes im 19. Jahrhundert (II): Die Auswanderer. Saarbruecken: Institut fuer Landeskunde im Saarland, 1987. 646p. (Veroeffentlichungen des Instituts fuer Landeskunde im Saarland, Band 28)

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