Editing Marchant family (section)

== Benjamin and Nannie Marchant Zimmerman ==
From roughly 1897-1909, B.F. Zimmerman was the cotton buyer for Victor Mill. In July 1909, Lewis Parker purchased the Edgefield Manufacturing Company, which contained a cottonseed oil factory and a textile factory; B.F. Zimmerman became manager of the mill. B.F. Zimmerman joined with ML Marchant Jr. as founding partners with Lewis Parker of the Beaver Dam mills in Edgefield; he became treasurer and general manager. Benjamin arrived at Edgefield in August; his family joined him a month later. This was a very successful venture for him. Eventually he became head of the cotton departments of Spartan and Drayton Mills in Spartanburg, where he worked for another 28 years.
* Marchant LeGrand Zimmerman, 1897-1953 (Francis Anderson)
* Rosa Few Zimmerman, 1903-1998 (Samuel T. Reid)
Nannie died in 1918, and in 1923 Benjamin married Minnie J. Adams.