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ami Carl Kundman ami was graduated with high honors, which included the academy prize, a free studio, and a cash allowance for working models. His statue of Tudor was purchased by the Rou- manian government and phvced in the Military Academy. He came to tlie United States in 1892 to carry out a commission for the Columbian Ex- position and he became a citizen and made his home in New York city. He exhibited at Nash- ville. Tenn., in 1897. a bust of Sam Davis, the Con- federate Spy. conceived and executed in that city before the opening of the Exposition. His con- ception of the hero, who preferred to sacrifice his life rather than betray a friend, he gained by visiting the surviving relatives and friends of his subject, with the help of portraits of Davis's father and mother, and his success led to a com- mission of a full length heroic size figure of Davis for a monument to be erected on Capitol Hill, Nashville. He also executed a bust of Edgar Allen Poe (q.v.) for the University of Virginia, a tympanum for the same institution, a bronze statue of President Jefferson Davis (q.v.) and the memorial erected at the grave of his daughter Varina Anne Davis (q.v.) in Hollywood Ceme- tery. Richmond, Va., a cast of which was made for the National Museum of Art at Bucharest. He made the soldier monument which the Con- federate Veterans erected at Owensboro. Ky. He also has busts of Beethoven. Schumann. Chopin, AVagner, and Mozart in various cities of Europe. King Charles I. of Roumania conferred on him tiie Order of the Crown with the title of Cheva- lier, a high distinction for the artist and for American Art.

ZOOK, Samuel Kosciuzko, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania about 1823. He studied tele- graphy, became expert in the electrical science of the day, removed to New York, and in 1857 was chosen lieutenant-colonel of the 6th regiment of infantry. N.G.S.N.Y. In 1861 he went to the front with his regiment, and served as mili- tary governor of Annapolis, Md. Returning to New York, he recruited the 57th N.Y. volunteers which he commanded in the Peninsular campaign. He commanded the 3d brigade, 1st division, 2d corps at Fredericksburg, and lost heavily in the attempt to capture the heights, his brigade gain- ing a position near the stone wall. He was pro- moted brigadier-general, and commanded the same brigade at Chancellorsville, and at Gettys- burg. He was killed at Gettysburg, Pa., in the " Wheatfield," .July 2. 1863.

ZUBLY, John Joachim, delegate, was born in St. (Jail. Switzf-rland. Anjr. 27. 1724. He came to -Vmerica previous to \}'<. locating as pastor of a Presbyterian church at Wandn Neck. S.C.. and became pastor of the Independent Presbyterian

church, at Savannah, Ga., in 1760. He was a member of the provincial congress of Georgia, and a delegate from Georgia to the Continental congress in 1775, but opposed the Declaration of Independence, and having been denounced as a traitor by Judge Samuel Chase, resigned his seat in congress. Upon his return to Georgia he was accused of having furnished information to Sir James Wright, the royal governor ; was banished fi"om the state in 1777, and half of his property confiscated. After Sir James Wright was re- established as governor of Georgia, Zubly re- turned from South Carolina, and resumed his pastoral charge at Savannah. His name is per- petuated in Joachim and Zubly streets in Savan- nah, and that of his birthplace in the hamlet of St. Gall. The honorary degree of A.M. was con- ferred upon him by the College of New Jersey, 1770, and that of D.D. in 1774. See: "History of Georgia," by Sir William B. Stevens (Vol. II., 1859), and that by Charles C. Jones (Vol. 11.^ 1883). He died in Savannah, Ga., July 23. 1781.

ZUEBLIN, Charles, sociologist, was born in Pendleton, Ind., I\Iay 4, 1866 ; son of John Evans and Henrietta (Follett) Ziiblin ; grandson of Isaac Newton and Rachel (Wynne) Ziiblin, and of Charles and Mary (Lewis) Follett, and a descend- ant of the family Ziiblin, who, having lived in St. Gall, Switzerland, from the time of the Reformation, emigrated to Savannah, Ga., in 1750, and of the family Follett, whose ancestor^ Robert Follett, married Persis Black in Salem, Mass., in 1655. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsyl- vania, 1883-85 ; was graduated from the North- western university, Ph.B., 1887, and Yale univer- sity, D.B., 1889, and completed his studies at the University of Leipzig, 1889-91. He was married, June 18, 1892, to Rho, daughter of Prof. Herbert Franklin and Anna (Green) Fisk of Evanston, 111. In 1892 he founded the Northwestern University settlement ; was first secretary of the Chicago Society for University extension ; secretary of the class study division of the University exten- sion department, University of Chicago. He was instructor in sociology at the University of Chi- cago, 1892-95; assistant professor, 1895-96; asso- ciate professor, 1896-1902. and professor from 1902. He was lecturer in the Edinburgh summer school in 1898 ; was made a member of the Amer- ican Academy of Political and Social Science, the National JIunicipal League, the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, Chicago, and the Special Park commission, and was president of the American League for Civic Improvement. 1901-2. He is the author of American Municijial Pvoqrens (1902) and was an editor of the Chautau- quan Magazine,