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severity. On Nov. 17, 1734, lie was arrested and imprisoned " for printing and pnblishing sedi- tious libels." Alexander Hamilton was retained as his counsel in the trial that followed, and in his speech before the jury, he upheld the rights of every American to speak and write the truth. Zenger was acquitted, and received a tremendous ovation from the citizens of New York. The trial settled the question of the freedom of the press in America, and created widespread interest. After his death, his son John conducted the Jo?«r- nal till 1753. He died in New York city in 1746.

ZILLIOX, James, R.C. abbot, was born in Newark, N.J., Oct. 14, 1849. He attended St. Vincent's college, Westmoreland county. Pa., and in 1865 entered the Benedictine order. He was ordered sub-deacon, March 29, 1873; deacon, March 30, 1873, by Archbishop Gregorius Scherr, in the old cathedral at Freising, and ordained priest, July 27, 1874, by Bishop "Weihbisliof at Innsbruck, Tyrol. He returned to the United States in 1874 and was chosen professor of theology at St. Vincent's college, and master of novices and prior of the monastery. He was elected abbot of St. Mary's, Benedictine Abbey, Newark, N.J., Feb. 11, 1885; was confirmed by Eome, April 19, 1885, and blessed abbot, July 22, 1885, at Newark Abbey by Bishop Wigger, being the first American-born abbot in the United States. Failing health caused his resignation in September, 1886. He is the author of: Alfernm Benedict inum (1880). See "Memoir" by Francis X. Eeuss. He died in Newark, Dec. 31, 1890.

ZOQBAUM, Rufus Fairchild, illustrator and author, was born in Charleston, S.C. Aug. 28, 1849. He received his art education in the Art Students' League, New York City, 1878-79 and in Paris, France, under Leon J. F. Bonnat, 1880-82 and he became well known for his success as a de- lineator of military and naval scenes and estab- lished a studio at New Rochelle, N.Y. which was also his home. He became a member of the Amer- ican Water Color Society of New York. He is the author of: Horse, Foot and Dragoons, or Sketches of Army Life, All Hands; Ships and Sailoi^s, each of which he illustrated, beside contributing illustrations to the magazines and weekl}^ period- icals, notably during the Spanish American War 1898.

ZOLLARS, EH Vaughan, educator, was born in Lower Salem, Washington county, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1847; son of Abram and Carolina ZoUer. He was graduated at Bethany college, A.B., 1875, A.M., 1878; was president of the Kentucky classical and business college, 1877-84; ])resident of Garrard Female college, 1884-85; pastor of Church of Christ, Springfield, 111., 1885-88: president of Hiram college, Hiram, Ohio, 1888- 1902, and in June, 1902, he became president of

Texas Christian university, Waco. He was mar- ried Oct. 22, 1865, to Hulda Louise, daughter of Dr. Dudley McAtie of Washington county, Ohio. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hiram college. He istlie author of: Bible Geog- raphy; The Great Salvation; The Holy Book and Sacred Day: Hebrew Pi^ophecy.

ZOLLICOFFER, Felix Kirk, soldier, was born in Maury county, Tenn., May 19, 1812. His grandfather. Captain Zollicoffer, was a veteran of the American revolution, and his great-grand- father came to America from Switzerland. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer became a printer, conducted newspapers in Paris, and Knoxville. Tenn., and Huntsville, Ala., was a soldier in the Seminole Indian war; public printer of Tennessee, 1835; editor of the Nashville Banner, 1842; comptroller of the state treasury, 1845-49, and state senator, 1849-52. He was a Whig representative from Tennessee in the 33d-35th congresses. 1853-59, and a delegate to the peace conference in 1861. He was commissioned brigadier-general in the Con- federate States army, Juh' 9, 1861, commanded a camp of instruction at Forrestdale, Tenn., and was assigned to the command of the military dis- trict of Tennessee, Aug. 8. 1861. He was defeated at Camp Wild Cat, Ky., Oct. 2, 1861, and at Mill Springs, Ky., trusting to the disguise of a water-' proof coat, rode in front of the Union line and requested Col. Speed Smith Fry of the 4th Ken- tucky Federal volunteers, not to fire on the troops at the left, representing that they were friendly. He started to return and would have escaped, but another Confederate officer, riding up. shot at Fry, wounding his horse, whereupon Fry fired at Zollicoffer and mortally wounded him. General Zollicoffer died at Mill Springs. Ky.. Jan. 19. 1862.

ZOLNAY, George Julian, sculptor, was born in Hungary, July 4, 1863; son of Ignatius and Caroline Vagan (Peed) Zolnay. His fatlier was obliged to remove to RoumaTiia in 1848 for his particii^ation in the revolution against Austria. George Julian attended the high school at Bu- charest and while there won a scholarship in the Royal Roumanian Conservatory of Music which he wished to use in studying violin, but his father dissuaded him and he continued his college course but gave considerable attention to art. He joined a regiment of cavalry in 1883 and while in this service modeled portrait busts and figures of horses, in clay, and in this way encouraged his taste for sculpture. He modeled a statue of Tudor, the Roumanian patriot, heroic size, during a summer vacation, digging and washing his clay, making his tools and building the kiln in which to bake the work when modeled, and his success led his father to consent to allow him to go to Paris to study. Later he studied at the Imperial Academv of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Ed Hellmer