(7 September 1804 – 21 July 1887) was a Mormon pioneer and a general authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1835 to 1837. He served in later years as a patriarch in the church, from 1873 until his death.

On 9 January 1831, Coltrin was baptized into the Church of Christ, or Latter Day Saint church (as it was later known), by Solomon Hancock at Strongsville, Ohio, and confirmed 19 January by Lyman Wight, who was also a recent convert. In order to be baptized, however, the ice, which was one foot thick, had to be cut, as was a common practice at the time: ‘It was a cold day, but Zebedee implied that he was warmed with the fervor of his newfound faith. As he stepped out of the frigid water onto the ice, he bore his testimony to those who had come to watch the baptism.

Coltrin was ordained an elder of the church on 21 January 1831, by church historian John Whitmer (one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon). Only weeks later, Coltrin was assigned to go to Missouri as a church missionary with Levi W. Hancock (Solomon’s brother, who, in addition to being a future witness of the Book of Commandments, would be a fellow President of the Seventy), during which travel through Indiana the two elders baptized ‘upwards of a hundred people’ (Stephens, 1974, p. 18).

On 17 July 1832 Coltrin was ordained a high priest by Hyrum Smith and future Presiding Bishopric and Council of Fifty member Reynolds Cahoon at Kirtland, Ohio (which was then Church headquarters), and in 1834 he served another mission, this time to Upper Canada.