John Celivergos Zachos educated at Mount Pleasant Classical Institute
Education and marriage
In 1830, Zachos was in the United States.  He was placed in Mount Pleasant Classical Institute in Amherst Massachusetts with Christophorus P. Castanis and other Greek children. Their instructors were Gregory Anthony Perdicaris and Petros Mengous and the assistant principal and founder was Chauncey Colton D. D. Zachos later traveled to an Episcopalian institution twenty miles north of Philadelphia.  Bristol Manual Labor College, Dr Colton was the founder and President it combined manual labor and study.  He remained there from 1833 to 1836.
By 1837 Zachos again followed Dr. Colton to Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio.  Chauncey Colton D. D. took a position as Professor of Homiletics at the institution.  Zachos' classmates included Rutherford B. Hayes and Stanley Matthews. He graduated from the institution by 1840 with honors.  Zachos gave two commencement speeches one was in Classical Greek and the other was in English.  As a young adult, he was noted for fine speaking, he won prizes whenever he competed.  He was the founder of the Society of Kenyon College.By now, Zachos and Matthews were close friends and the two lived together in Cincinnati, Matthews's hometown.  Matthews pursued a law degree under Salmon P. Chase and Zachos was a teacher, while he continued a graduate Degree at Kenyon College.  Colton also traveled to Cincinnati.  He founded a few schools where Professor Zachos also taught.
By 1843, Zachos finished his second degree from Kenyon College.  By now Zachos enrolled in Medical School under the
prominent Dr. Reuben D. Mussey where he continued his studies for three years.  By the late 1840s, Zachos decide not to practice medicine due to his love for teaching and literature.Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge), Ainsworth Rand Spofford, and nine others founded the Literary Club of Cincinnati in 1849.  One year later Rutherford B. Hayes became a member. Other prominent members included William Howard Taft and notable club guests Ralph Waldo Emerson, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, and Robert Frost.He married Harriet Tompkins Canfield Zachos on July 26, 1849. Harriet Tompkins was born on January 15, 1824, to George Washington Canfield and Catherine A Clark.  Harriet's second cousin John Caldwell Canfield married Ella Todd, Abraham Lincoln's niece. Harriet Canfield and John Zachos had six children born between 1850 and 1865. His daughter Mary Helena Zachos became an American college professor and elocutionist. His son Ainsworth was named after close friend and abolitionist Ainsworth Rand Spofford.
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