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_William HUTCHCROFT _|
| (1845 - ....) |
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|--Albert HUTCHCROFT
| (1866 - ....)
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Hutchcroft, Wm. age 36 farmer Eng Eng Eng
Mary Jane 26 wife WI Prus Prus
Albert 14 son WI Eng WI
Nelson 10 son same
Lester 1 son "
Oscar 3/12 son "
_William SHELDON ____+
| (1731 - 1816) m 1753
_William SHELDON ____|
| (1766 - 1841) m 1784|
| |_Hannah NOBLE _______+
| (1735 - 1810) m 1753
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|--Elizabeth SHELDON
| (1801 - ....)
| _Jasper SAXTON LT____+
| | (1738 - 1798) m 1759
|_Diadama SAXTON _____|
(1767 - 1838) m 1784|
|_Martha KEYES _______+
(1736 - 1813) m 1759
_Johann Christian ZIMMERMAN __________+
| (1800 - 1851) m 1832
_Christian ZIMMERMAN _|
| (1848 - 1934) m 1882 |
| |_Elizabeth Dorothea KNOLL Kneil Knell_+
| (1809 - 1888) m 1832
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|--Peter Christian ZIMMERMAN
| (1886 - 1950)
| ______________________________________
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|_Louisa Sophia NOLTE _|
(1857 - 1938) m 1882 |
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[7756]
1930 Census - Peter is employed in general farming.
He and his family are living right next door to his brother, George and Family.
ZIMMERMAN For Governor, 611-613 Times Building
PORTLAND, Oregon
Peter C. Zimmerman was very active in the Oregon Grange and farm cooperative movements. He ran for Governor in the May, 1934 Oregon Republican primary. He was defeated by Joe Dunne, a man strongly supported by big labor and the Portland Oregonian newspaper. Upstate farm circles were strongly opposed to this man as they felt he was a person of questionable financial dealings and integrety. Peter Zimmerman was a state senator at that time, his second term in office representing several counties in Northwestern Oregon was nearing completion.
Senator Zimmerman was asked to run again as an Independent candidate. It was felt he could so split the Republican vote that the Democratic candidate Charles Martin a retired army General, would win the election. Many farm groups felt this would be much more desirable than having the big labor candidate in office, Mr. Dunne being a labor organizer at the time.
Senator Zimmerman jumped into the race as an Independent. He very soon received not only various church and farm groups endorsements he was also endorsed by almost every major newspaper throughout the State of Oregon except the Oregonian in Portland.
As the campaign progressed, it became evident that he not only would be successful, in keeping Joe Dunne out of office, he had a very good chance of winning the election. However, the Democratic candidate Charles Martin won by a very slim 2000 votes. Joe Dunne came in a very distant third.
Peter was the third child in this family. He married Ethel Patey and they had one daughter whom
they named Carolyn. She married Ben Larson. I am told that Peter was a very wonderful and good man;
not only was he an electrical engineer and a good business man, but he became an important man
politically in the state of Oregon. He was a liberal and stood for government control of electrical power
so that electricity would be available to every farmer and poor person in the state of Oregon. In 1934 he
wag prevailed upon to run for Governor and received a very heavy vote, but not quite enough to win the
election. He was a Republican, and. this year the Democratic Party elected their man because there was a
split in the Republican Party. Peter was a great orator and debater and fearless in presenting the truth as
he saw it. He died in 1950 of cancer of the throat at the age of sixty-three. I did not have the pleasure of
knowing him or his family, but he was a great favorite among his fellow men.