sentences:  He was trustee of the Board of the State Asylum at Wernersville, director of the Reading Free Public Library, president of the Pennsylvania Association of Superintendents and Trustees of Insane Asylums and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Chautauqua Association.He was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania German Society, and of the Historical Society of Berks County.Zimmerman died in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1914.