Biography

Zaccheus Test (1828-1905), from a Richmond Quaker family, was a student when the boarding school opened in 1847. He became a teacher in 1851, then left to study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to teach languages in 1855, remaining on the faculty until 1866. When the boarding school was transformed into a college in 1859, it was he who proposed the name Earlham.