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In 184G, at the age of twenty-four, young Newberry graduated 

 from the Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, where, in 

 the preparatory school, he had also made his preparation. 

 During his college course and afterwards he was a close friend 

 of his teacher in geology and natural science, Professor Samuel 

 St. John. In college he Avas the same popular, kind and manly 

 spirit that we knew in later life. A classmate writes of him : 

 " Not a coarse word, not a cruel speech or act, not an ungentle 

 thing of his doing occurs to the recollection of intimate 

 acquaintance with him."* 



Another classmate writes : " He was a thoroughly manly 

 man, a most congenial companion, a faithful student, not ambi- 

 tious to excel, though ' facile princeps ' in his favorite studies, 

 and above the average in all ; with a choice fund of wit and 

 humor which he never used to give jDain, but always pleasure ; 

 a self-poised and ' all I'ound man ' not often met with at his age. 

 Though he had enjoyed advantages for social culture superior 

 to most of his classmates he showed no consciousness of sui:)eri- 

 ority to any. His tastes were refined and pure, and I cannot 

 conceive him capable of a mean or dishonorable action. I think 

 he had a very just estimate of his own abilities. He certainly 

 was not conceited, and was not self-distrustful. ''f 



After graduation he studied medicine as a post-graduate of 

 the college and was assistant to Samuel St. John, the Professor 

 iu Chemistry in the Cleveland Medical School, from which he 

 took his degree of M.D. in 1848. During the year following he 

 practiced medicine at Cuyahoga Falls, and married Miss Sarah 

 B. Gaylord, of Cleveland, In the autumn of 1849 he went to 

 Europe for further medical study. Besides his attendance upon 

 lectures and clinics in Paris he frequented L'Ecole des Mines 

 and Le Jardin des Plantes, and heard the lectures of Adolphe 

 Brongniart, the great j^aleobotanist of that day. Before return- 

 ing to America he visited the south of France, Italy and 

 Switzerland. 



In 1851 he resumed the practice of medicine in Cleveland, 

 which he continued for about four years. During this time he 

 kept up his interest in natural science and published ten 

 papers, all in natural history except one, and the last four on 

 fossil plants. His library and collections must even at this time 

 have been well known, for during 1853 or 1854 they were used 

 by Leo Lesquereux, who received from Dr. Newberry nu;ch 

 help in the beginning of his labors on the plants of the Carboni- 

 ferous. 



* From an article by Rov. E. BushnoU. in Th.p. Adelbert, January, 1893. 

 t From a letter to the writer by Rev. N. S. Burton- 



