Background
Zachos, John Celivergas was born on December 20, 1820 in Constantinople, Turkey. Son of Nicholas and Euphrosyne Zachos.
Zachos, John Celivergas was born on December 20, 1820 in Constantinople, Turkey. Son of Nicholas and Euphrosyne Zachos.
Graduate Kenyon College, 1840. Attended Miami University Medical School.
Came to the United States, 1830. Associate principal Cooper Female Seminary, Dayton, O., 1851-1854. Company-editor Ohio Journal of Education, 1852-1853.
Principal grammar school Antioch College, Yellow Springs, O., 1854-1857.
Served as assistant surgeon United States Army stationed Parris Island, Portuguese Royal, South Carolina., at outbreak of Civil War. Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church, West Newton, Massachusetts, 1865.
Pastor Unitarian Church, Meadville, Pennsylvania, also professor rhetoric Meadville Theological School, 1866-1867. Taught literature and oratory Cooper Union, New York City, 1871-1898.
Patented printing machine for English texts, 1876.
Demonstrated with series of tests that Negroes could be educated by instruction, early 1860’son Author: New American Speaker, 1851. Phonic Primer and Rearer, 1864.
Phonic Test, 1865.
Married Harriet Tomkins Canfield, July 26, 1849, 6 children.