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Sweeney, Zachary Taylor

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 10, 1849, in Liberty, Ky. He received his education in the Eureka and the De Pauw universities.

For twenty-four years he was pastor of one of the largest churches among the religious people of his choice, and editorially connected with several of his denominational journals. He has been connected with Butler university in the capacity of chancellor. He is the author of a book of travel; has been president of the Indiana Christian Sunday-school convention; president of the Indiana Anti-Liquor league; was United States consul-general to the Ottoman Empire from 1889 to 1891, and was imperial Ottoman commissioner to the World's Columbian exposition.

He was decorated by the Sultan of Turkey with the order of the Osmanieh.