Family/Spouse: Katharina Weis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nicholas Zahm. Nicholas was born on 2 Apr 1787 in Olsberg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 2 Apr 1874 in Perry County, Ohio, USA; was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pierre married Ann Elizabeth Braddock on 26 Apr 1846 in Perry County, Ohio, USA. Ann was born on 8 Feb 1829; died on 23 Jan 1847. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacques married Mary Ellen Braddock on 6 May 1849 in Ohio, USA. Mary (daughter of John Braddock and Elizabeth Storm) was born on 27 Feb 1827 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 18 Dec 1884 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes Jane Braddock. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Augustine Zahm
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Father John Augustine Zahm
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Father Zahm, CSC
Born June 14, 1851
New Lexington, Ohio
Died November 10, 1921 (aged 70)
Munich, Germany, en route to the Middle East
Other names H. J. Mozans
Education University of Notre Dame
Church Roman Catholicism
Ordained 1875
Title Holy Cross Priest
Father John Augustine Zahm (pseudonym H. J. Mozans), CSC (June 14, 1851 – November 10, 1921) was a Holy Cross priest, author, scientist, and South American explorer. He was born at New Lexington, Ohio, and died in Munich, Germany.[1]

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1 Education and Career
2 Writing
3 Presidential Friend
4 Death & Post Death
5 Works authored
6 Footnotes
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Education and Career[edit]
Zahm attended the University of Notre Dame in 1867 and graduated with honors in 1871 as a Novitiate of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.[2] He finished his theological studies and was ordained in 1875.[3] Zahm was hired by the University of Notre Dame as a science teacher although he had interest in literature.[4] During his time teaching he wrote the text Sound and Music in 1892.[5] He was appointed the Vice President of Notre Dame at 25 years old and held the position for nine years. In 1895, he was recognized as Dr. of Philosophy by Pope Leo XIII.[6] He went on to fill various positions in the Congregation, at one time being a provincial from 1898 to 1906 and served as Procurator General for the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Zahm became a leader in the drive to pacify the tensions between Roman Catholicism and Darwinian biology, and became well known in the Catholic arena as he was asked to speak in many Catholic Winter and Summer School lectures. His lectures concerning Genesis can be found in a volume called Bible, Science and Faith.

Writing[edit]
Father Zahm is the author of many scholarly texts and published works against the Darwin movement.[7] He also wrote Catholic scientific essays published in Ave Maria and American Catholic Quarterly Catholic World.[8] He fought through writing and used his detailed background in science to defend the ability of God and Catholic faith to remain in the scientific sphere. Focusing on Catholic men of science in the past, Zahm created a magazine called Catholic Science and Catholic Scientists. Between 1891 and 1896, Zahm published multiple books and articles on the topic, culminating with Evolution and Dogma in 1896.[9] In this text, as in his others, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism could fully accept an evolutionary view of biological systems, as long as this view was not centered around Darwin's theory of natural selection. After the Vatican decided to censure the book in 1898, Zahm fully accepted this rebuttal and pulled away from any writing concerning the relationship of theology and science.[10] He was the author (sometimes under the pseudonym of H. J. Mozans), of a number of books covering a large variety of subjects. He wanted to keep his identity as a secret for the fear of his works being cast away if his Catholic priestly identity was associated with them. His pseudonym was derived from the way he signed his name as a youth: Jno. S. (Stanislaus, an abandoned middle name) Zahm. His works have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, and read in Europe, North and South America. Among these works are: Woman in Science (not to be confused with the plural phrase 'women in science'), and "Great Inspirers[11]" Both of these works were some of the first in exposing the idea that woman can be involved in the sciences and have been in past history. Through these works, Zahm defied beliefs that women were incapable and divinely appointed to not interfere with science. The Quest for El Dorado, and the general title of his trilogy was "Following the Conquistadores[12]", and the titles of books called "Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena" (1910), "Along the Andes and Down the Amazon" (1912), and "In South America's Southland[13]" (1916), draw from his travels throughout South America. He was an enthusiastic Dante student and assembled at Notre Dame one of the three largest of the Dante libraries in America.

Presidential Friend[edit]
Zahm befriended 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, who also loved and read Dante in Italian. It was Father Zahm who talked President Roosevelt into participating in what came to be known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to South America, and which would also include Theodore's son, Kermit, and Colonel Da Silva Candido Rondon, to go up the Rio da Dúvida (River of Doubt, now the Roosevelt River). This trip[14] deteriorated into a near disaster which caused one man to drown, another to be murdered, and Roosevelt nearly dying, shortening his life by probably ten years from the combined effects of malaria and infection. The trip almost cost the others their lives as well, as the members lost boats to waterfalls and rapids and almost ran out of food. They barely made it to the first sign of civilization and some certainty that they would survive. The elder Roosevelt had to be carried off his canoe, so weak and ravaged by sickness had he become. Zahm unwisely delegated planning and provisioning of the trip, and so irritated Roosevelt and Rondon that he was not permitted to go on the expedition itself, but took a side trip instead. Throughout his life he collected maps, photographs, relics, and curios which were added to the valuable collection of fifteen hundred volumes of South American history and research work at Notre Dame.

Death & Post Death[edit]
He planned a book on historical and archaeological study of the Holy Land, but died of bronchial pneumonia in a Munich hospital en route to the Middle East. The manuscripts of his working book "From Berlin to Baghdad and Babylon[15]" was found and published posthumously.[16] Zahm Hall, a male dormitory at Notre Dame, is dedicated in his honor. The dorm's chapel is dedicated to St. Albert the Great, who Fr. Zahm saw as a pioneer in bridging the gap between science and religion.

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Albert Francis Zahm
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Albert Francis Zahm
Born 1862
New Lexington, Ohio, U.S.
Died July 23, 1954
Citizenship American
Fields Aeronautics
Institutions University of Notre Dame,
Catholic University,
Library of Congress
Alma mater University of Notre Dame,
Cornell University,
Johns Hopkins University
Known for testimony in Wrights v. Curtiss
Notable awards Laetare Medal
Albert Francis Zahm (1862–1954) was an early aeronautical experimenter, a professor of physics, and a chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress. He testified as an aeronautical expert in the 1910–14 lawsuits between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss.

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1 Time line of early life and work in aeronautics
2 Testimony in Wrights vs. Curtiss
3 Later years
4 Honors
5 Publications, bibliography and archival information
6 References
7 External links
Time line of early life and work in aeronautics[edit]
Received A.B., University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1883, A.M., 1885, M.S. 1890; M.E. Cornell University, 1892; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1898.[1]
Professor of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame 1885-1889, mathematics and mechanics, 1890-1892.[1]
He suggested to stage an International Conferences on Aerial Navigation in 1893 and acted as Secretary, with Octave Chanute as Chair. .,[1][2]
He was a professor of mechanics (physics) at the Catholic University of America, from 1895 apparently until 1913-1914 (but one source says only till 1908).[1][3]
In 1901, as part of a pioneering aeronautical laboratory, Zahm built a wind tunnel with financing from Hugo Mattullah. It operated until 1908.[4] It has been described as "America's first significant wind tunnel."[5]
He joined the Aero Club of America shortly after it was founded, in 1905.[6]
Zahm's 1911 book Aerial Navigation described the historical development of experimental aircraft that led to functional airplanes.[7]
Testimony in Wrights vs. Curtiss[edit]
Zahm testified as an aeronautical expert in the 1910-1913 patent lawsuits by the Wright brothers who alleged patent infringement against inventor and manufacturer Glenn Curtiss.[8] His testimony took over a month. He testified on behalf of the Curtiss after declining to testify for the Wrights,[9] possibly because the Wrights refused to pay Zahm to appear as an expert witness whereas the Curtiss interests did.[10] Zahm had been on friendly terms with both sides previously but became a long term adversary of the Wrights during and after the trial.[4][11] He worked closely with Glenn Curtiss on the controversial 1914 flying tests of the (substantially rebuilt and modified) Langley Aerodrome in an attempt to show that Langley's machine had been capable of powered flight with a man aboard before the Wrights' glider was.[12]

Zahm testified that earlier experimental gliders and glider designs and publications, before those of the Wrights, had included a variety of monoplane and biplane designs, with horizontal and vertical rudders, and steering concepts of ailerons and wing warping. There were complex technical issues, notably whether Curtiss's airplanes used a vertical rudder and ailerons in ways that closely matched the patented design of the Wrights. Experts testified on both sides and sometimes contradicted one another on matters of fact. In the end judge John R. Hazel ruled in Feb. 1913 for the Wrights, and on appeal a higher court agreed with this decision in 1914.[11]

Later years[edit]
Zahm became the chief research engineer of Curtiss Aeroplane Company in 1914-1915 and then the director of the U.S. Navy's Aerodynamical Laboratory, 1916-1929.[1]

Zahm became the chief of the Aeronautical Division at the Library of Congress from 1929 or 1930 until 1946, and held the Guggenheim Chair of Aeronautics there.[1][13]

Zahm died in 1954, and was buried in the Community Cemetery, Notre Dame, Indiana.[1]

Honors[edit]
Zahm was invited to be a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC, and received his mail there while on the faculty of Catholic University.
Recipient of Laetare medal at University of Notre Dame, 1925.
Awarded the Mendel Medal at Villanova College in 1930 for his pioneering work in scientific aeronautics.[14]
Daniel Guggenheim Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress, 1929-1946.[1]
Publications, bibliography and archival information[edit]
More than 100 of his articles and papers were collected in Aeronautical papers 1885-1945 of Albert F. Zahm, volumes I and II.[15] He wrote the book Aerial Navigation (1911),[16] and a booklet called Early Powerplane Fathers.[17] His papers are kept by the University of Notre Dame.

Louis married Maggie Nuck on 10 Oct 1888 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA. Maggie (daughter of Matthias Nuck and Katherina Baker) was born on 28 Mar 1864 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA; died on 28 May 1928 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pius married Mary M. Schieber on 30 May 1894 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA. Mary was born in 0Dec 1872 in Indiana, USA; died in 1960 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]