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Zenor, William T

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 30, 1846, in Harrison township. In 1871 he moved to Leavenworth, Ind., where he established a successful practice, and was appointed prosecuting attorney for the district, which office he held by this appointment and two succeeding elections till 1882. In 1884 he was elected judge of the judicial circuit without opposition; and was reelected in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana at Corydon.

ZENOS, ANDREW CONSTANTINIDES, clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1855 in Turkey. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical theology in McCormick Theological seminary, Chicago, from 1891; and the author of The Elements of the Higher Criticism; and Compendium of Church History.

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