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Rev. Adam Zimmerman – Reformed Minister of the Lykens Valley

Rev. Adam Zimmerman served as minister of Simeon Reformed Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, from 1902 to 1904.

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Adam Zimmerman was born 12 April 1864, in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. He was a son of Nicholas Zimmerman and Mary Elizabeth [Sahm] Zimmerman. He graduated from Calvin COllege in 1878. He later attended Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was ordained on 26 February 1888, by Bishop H. J. VanVleck in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, through the Moravian Synod.

On 7 July 1888, Rev. Zimmerman was married to Sarah L. Perry, but nothing is known of their family.

Rev. Zimmerman served in to Moravian Churches between 1888 and 1894. From 1894 to 1912, he served in six Reformed churches, one of them being Simeon in Gratz. Nineteen baptisms were recorded during his years of service in this congregation.

Eventually, Rev. Adam Zimmerman went back to Ohio. He died in Canton, 23 May 1944, age eighty years old.

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A brief biography of Rev. Zimmerman appeared in a Gratz history published in 1997.

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