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Frank was the son of Alex Zipperer and brother of Otto Zipperer.
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2) The South Bend Tribune
Dec 24, 1906, p. 5
Frank Zipperer, who has been connected with Otto Zipperer for the past seven years, has resigned his position. As to the future Mr. Zipperer has not decided.
1) The South Bend Tribune
June 13, 1911, p. 1
“POSITION TO LOCAL MAN IS TOO LATE”
Postoffice Department Acts in Zipperer Case
Word Delayed and Does Not Reach South Bend Until After Applicant’s Death.
WASHINGTON, June 13. — Frank J. Zipperer, 25 years old, a clerk in the postoffice at South Bend, died at his home in that city, June 4, a victim of tuberculosis, without knowing that his one wish — the only hope he had for recovery — had been granted.
As he lay dying, with his wife and little child kneeling at his bedside, an official letter from Postmaster-General Hitchcock, telling him that his application to be transferred to the postoffice at Phoenix, Ariz., had been acted on favorably, was speeding toward Indiana.
Within an hour after those watching had left the chamber of death, a special messenger reached the home with the tidings that came too late.
More than three months ago Senator B. F. Shively of South Bend made a request that Mr. Zipperer be transferred to some postoffice in the southwest, where he could derive the benefit of the climatic change. He enclosed the formal application of the clerk, together with a recommendation from the postmaster at South Bend to the postmaster-general.
There was no position open in any office in that territory, Postmaster-General Hitchcock told Senator Shively, but that did not deter Mr. Shively from asking that a position be created for the South Bend clerk in the postoffice at Phoenix. After some correspondence with the postmaster in the Arizona city, Postmaster Cadmus Crabill of South Bend, and Mr. Zipperer, Senator Shively received word that the request of the young man would be granted by the department.
On the evening of June 3, 24 hours before Mr. Zipperer died, Senator Shively received word from the postmaster-general that a place had been made for the South Bend clerk in the Phoenix postoffice and that the postoffice department had just sent an official announcement to the young man, telling him to prepare to leave at once for his new post of duty.
According to a report in the office of the first assistant postmaster-general, Mr. Zipperer was regarded as one of the most efficient men in the South Bend office.
