Zerah Colburn

(1804-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Colburn, Zerah, 1804-1840 LBT ID: ZeColbu1839 VIAF ID: 13813687 LOC ID: n86864437	B/BAP: 1804-09-01 DIED: 1839-03
SOURCES: Richmond County Mirror (1 June 1839) 146; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Mathematical prodigy born in Vermont and educated at Westminster School in London; he was afterwards a Methodist preacher.
REFERENCES TO Zerah Colburn: Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, [25 November 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 9