The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . oard of agri-culture, and president of the Chic-opee Palls Savings Bank. He wasmarried in Chicopee, Nov. 35,1845,to Asenath B., daughter of EliasH. and Rebecca (Boylston) Cobb,and
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . oard of agri-culture, and president of the Chic-opee Palls Savings Bank. He wasmarried in Chicopee, Nov. 35,1845,to Asenath B., daughter of EliasH. and Rebecca (Boylston) Cobb,and has four children : Ella S.(Mrs. Lyon), Edward Sylvester, William Cobb andAlbert Eaton. ZUBLY, Joachim, clergyman, was bornin St. Gall, Switzerland, in 1725. Upon coming toAmerica he lived for a time in South Carolina, but,in April, 1760, he went to Savannah, Ga., to takecharge of the Independent Presbyterian was a man of marked ability and learning; hepreached to an English and German congregation,and sometimes also he preached in French. He wasa member of the Continental congress in 1775, wherehe prepared a petition to the king respecting thecondition of affairs in the colonies, and also servedon the committee of correspondence for the state ofGeorgia. He cooperated earnestly with the popularparty until it became evident that congress was aboutto declare independence, when he opened a cor-. respondence with Sir James Wright, a royalist gov-ernor of Georgia, to whom he disclosed the plans ofcongress. His conduct and language excited sus-picion, and Dr. Zubly finally left Philadelphiaand returned to Georgia, where he threw off all dis-guise and made common cause with the Tories. In1777 he was banished from Savannah, with the lossof half his estate. He then remained with Toryfriends in South Carolina, and when Sir JamesWright was reinstated in the government of Georgialie returned to his pastoral work in Savannah, wherehe remained until his deatli. Joachim stre
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