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Colburn, Zerah, 1804-1840
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1804-1840
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COLBURN, ZERAH, sixth child of Abia Colburn, Cabot, Vermont, USA, farmer, and Elizabeth Hills (IGI); b. 1 Sep 1804; adm. 19 Sep 1816 (Du Brieux's); left Whitsun 1819; showed remarkable powers of computation when quite young, which left him on his approach to manhood; exhibited by his father as a mathematical prodigy in America and the United Kingdom prior to his admission to the School; returned to USA 1824; studied at Vermont Univ.; joined Methodist Society at Cabot, Vermont, Dec 1825, and was for nine years an itinerant Methodist preacher; Professor of Languages, Norwich Univ., Vermont, 1835; author, A Memoir of Zerah Colburn written by himself, 1833 (in which he gives some interesting details of his school life, and his strong objections to being fagged); d. at Norwich, Vermont, USA, 2 Mar 1840.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.