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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_33381" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_33381" /> == | ||
<p> for several years an itinerant minister of the [[Methodist]] Church, was born at Cabot, Vermont, | <p> for several years an itinerant minister of the [[Methodist]] Church, was born at Cabot, Vermont, September 1, 1804. He was remarkably precocious, and so noted, as a child, for talent in computation that his father exhibited him in different cities in [[America]] and in Europe. [[Zerah]] spent three years in the [[Westminster]] school in London. On the death of his father in London, in 1824, he returned to the United States, and became a member of the Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont, but not long afterwards joined the Methodists. Mr. Colburn is said to have displayed no uncommon ability as a preacher, and to have lost his peculiar mathematical power. He died at Norwich, Vermont, March 2, 1839. (J.C.S.) </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_71089" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_71089" /> == | ||
<p> An | <p> An American youth, with an astonishing power of calculation, born in Vermont, and exhibited as such, a faculty which he lost when he grew up to manhood (1804-1840). </p> | ||
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