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In 1846, 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 was 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 ahove the average in all; with a choice fund of wit and 
humor which he never used to give pain, but always pleasure ; 
a self-poised and ‘all round 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 superi- 
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.’’> 
After graduation he studied medicine as a post-graduate of 
the college and was assistant to Samuel St, John, the Professor 
in 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 paleobotanist 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 much 
help in the beginning of his labors on the plants of the Carboni- 
ferous. 
* From an article by Rev. E. Bushnell. in The Adelbert, January, 1893, 
+ From a letter to the writer by Rey. N.S. Burton- 
