John Celivergos Zachos family name Zachos
John Celivergos Zachos (Greek: Ιωάννης Καλίβεργος Ζάχος; December 20, 1820 – March 20, 1898) was a Greek-American physician, literary scholar, elocutionist, author, lecturer, inventor, and educational pioneer.  He was an early proponent of equal education rights for African Americans and women.  He advocated and expanded the Oratory systems of François Delsarte and James Rush.Early life
Zachos was born in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Nicholas and Euphrosyne Zachos. They were from Athens. Nicholas Zachos was a general in the Greek army during the Greek War of Independence, where he was killed in battle in 1824.
Samuel Gridley Howe an American surgeon and Philhellene was also fighting for Greek independence.  He brought John Celivergos Zachos along with other young Greek people back to the United States to educate them.Namely traveling with Zachos and Howe was a young refugee who survived the Chios massacre named Christophoros Castanes.  In 1851, he wrote a book on his travels called The Greek Exile, Or, a Narrative of the Captivity and Escape of Christophorus Plato Castanis. This book includes John C. Zachos and other Greek children.
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