Joseph Emmett Zimmerman

Brief Life History of Joseph Emmett

When Joseph Emmett Zimmerman was born on 17 December 1919, in Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph William Zimmerman, was 31 and his mother, Pearl E Lehmann, was 26. He lived in Cheneys Grove Township, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Saybrook, McLean, Illinois, United States in 2005. He died on 15 February 2007, at the age of 87, and was buried in Saybrook, McLean, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph William Zimmerman
1888–1979
Pearl E Lehmann
1893–1967
Martha Elizabeth Zimmerman
1915–2018
Lorene Pearl Zimmerman
1918–2016
Joseph Emmett Zimmerman
1919–2007
Mildred Irene Zimmerman
1924–2016
Edna M Zimmerman
1927–2014
Myron Paul Zimmerman
1934–2013

Sources (7)

  • Emmett Zimmerman in household of Joseph Zimmerman, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Joseph E Zimmerman, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Joseph E Zimmerman, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1925 · Woman's World's Fair

The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women

1942

On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Zimmermann , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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