Draft:Peter Zebich
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{{Infobox person
| name = Peter Zebić
| image = File:Peter Zebich 1912.png
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| birth_name = Petar Zebić
| birth_date = 6 June 1877
| birth_place = Kostajnica, then part of Austria-Hungary
| death_date = 16 June 1947
| death_place = Cleveland, Ohio
| nationality = Serbian
| citizenship = Austria-Hungary and United States
| other_names =
| occupation = Strongman
| years_active = Late 19th- and early 20th-century
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Peter Zebich (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Зебић; Kostajnica, then part of Austria-Hungary, 6 June 1877 - Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 16 June 1947) was a Serbian-American strongman who was billed as Professor Peter Zebich. He is best remembered as the man who "Eugen Sandow refused to meet in competition contests involving strength and endurance"{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1912-07-28/ed-1/seq-10/|title=The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, July 28, 1912, Image 10|first=National Endowment for the|last=Humanities|date=July 28, 1912|pages=10|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}.
Biography
Born to a Serbian family in Kostajnica in 1877, Petar Zebić emigrated to the United States of America in 1911 and capitalized on his strength and athletic abilitieshttps://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/ohio/cincinnati/cincinnati-local.pdf page 23. He was billed as "The Strongest Man in the World,"{{cite book |last1=America |first1=Croatian Fraternal Union of |title=The First 100 Years: A History of CFU Lodges, 1894-1994 |date=1994 |publisher=Croatian Fraternal Union of America |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8eq3AAAAIAAJ&q=Peter+Zebich |access-date=23 June 2025 |language=en}} and gave exhibitions that made him wealthy{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=asl1AAAAMAAJ&q=serb+strongman+Zebic | isbn=978-0-8225-0231-9 | title=The Yugoslavs in America | date=1977 | publisher=Lerner Publications Company }}. He toured Europe and North America exhibiting his strength in circuses and fairs as strongmen did at the time. While on tour in major cities and towns, he befriended many Serbian American compatriots{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7QvAAAAIBAJ&dq=Peter+Zebich%2C+strongman&pg=PA18&article_id=3479,7298951|title=Beaver Country Times|publisher=Beaver County Times|via=Google Books}}.
Peter Zebich was buried at the Saint Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohio{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130782278/petar-zebic|title=Petar Zebic (1877-1947) - Find a Grave Memorial|website=www.findagrave.com}}.
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