Zeppo Marx was from East Frisia in Germany; and his father was a native of France, and worked as a tailor. As with all of the Marx Brothers, there are different theories as to where Zeppo got his stage name: Groucho said in his Carnegie Hall concert in 1972 that the name was derived from the Zeppelin airship. Zeppo's ex-wife Barbara Sinatra repeated this in her 2011 book, "Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank". His brother Harpo offered a different account in his 1961 autobiography, "Harpo Speaks!," claiming (p. 130) that there was a popular trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo, and
Adolph Marx (bishop) Adolph Marx (bishop) Adolph Marx (February 18, 1915 – November 1, 1965) served as the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, in Brownsville, Texas. Born in Cologne, Germany, Marx was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Corpus Christi on May 2, 1940. On July 6, 1956, Pope Pius XII appointed Marx auxiliary bishop of the Corpus Christi Diocese and he was consecrated on October 9, 1956. On July 9, 1965, Pope Paul VI appointed Marx of the Brownsville Diocese and he was installed on September 2, 1965. On November 1, 1965, Bishop Marx died