ZERAH See also:

• COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855)
• ZERAH COLBURN (1804-1840)

COLBURN (1804-1840)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American mathematical See also:

• PRODIGY

prodigy, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• CABOT, GEORGE (1751–1823)
• CABOT, JOHN [GIOVANNI CABOTO] (1450-1498)

Cabot, See also:

• VERMONT

Vermont, on the 1st of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1804 . At a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed remarkable See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of calculating with extreme rapidity, and in 1810 his See also:

• FATHER

father began to exhibit him . As a performing prodigy he visited See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . From 1816 to 1819 he studied in See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster school, See also:

• LONDON

London . After the See also:

• DEATH

death of his father in 1824 he returned to See also:

• AMERICA

America, and from 1825 to 1834 he was a Methodist preacher . As he See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew older his extraordinary calculating powers diminished . From 1835 until his death, on the 2nd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1840, he was See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages at the See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich University in Vermont . He published a Memoir of his See also:

• LIFE

life in 1833 . His See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, also named ZERAH'See also:

• COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855)
• COLBURN, ZERAH (1804-1840)

COLBURN (1832-1870), was a well-known See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical engineer; the editor successively of the Railroad See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

Advocate, in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, The Engineer, in London, and See also:

• ENGINEERING

Engineering, in London; and the author of a See also:

• WORK

work entitled The See also:

• LOCOMOTIVE

Locomotive See also:

• ENGINE
• ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

Engine (1851) .