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LEWIS R. GIBBES. 



Lewis R. Gibbes, eldest son of Lewis Ladson Gibbes, 

 and Maria Henrietta Drayton, was born in Charleston, 

 S. C, August 14, 1810; died on November 21, 1894, at 

 the same place. A part of his early educational train- 

 ing he received at the Grammar School of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in the years 1821 

 and 1822, then under the direction of the Rev. James 

 Whitbank ; but his preparation for college was made in 

 the Pendleton Academy, Pendleton, S. C, in the years 

 1823 to 1827. December 27, 1827, he was granted ad- 

 mission to the junior class of the South Carolina Col- 

 lege and graduated in December, 1829, with the highest 

 honors. 



Upon graduation he began the study of medicine in 

 the office of Dr. Arthur S. Gibbes, of Pendleton. He had 

 been interested since boyhood in the subject of botany, 

 his mother being somewhat of a botanist herself; and 

 while here he entered upon the study of botany in the 

 fields and forests surrounding his father's residence. At 

 the request of the trustees, he took charge of Pendleton 

 Academy, giving instruction in the classics and math- 

 ematics until a permanent principal could be selected. 

 In November he went to Charleston to enter the office of 

 Dr. John Wagner, and at the same time took his first 

 course of lectures in the Medical College of the State of 

 South Carolina. He was elected December 3, 1831, 

 tutor in mathematics at the South Carolina College, in 

 place of Isaac W. Hayne, resigned. While tutor he con- 

 tinued the study of botany in the woods and sandhills 

 around Columbia, and that of medicine in the office of 

 Dr. Thomas Wells. The results of this work were pub- 

 lished in October, 1835, in a small pamphlet, entitled 

 ''A Catalogue of the Phaenogamous Plants of Colum- 



