ARTHUR WELLESLEY SAXE 



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 Rumex Saxei — KELLOGG 



The first real glimpse of Saxe is as a student 

 painting pictures, chiefly portraits, to pay his 

 fees at Castleton Medical College, where he 

 graduated in medicine. 



He was born at Plattsburg, New York, Octo- 

 ber 20, 1820, and had only a common school 

 education, though he also took painting lessons 

 with a good artist. 



In May, 1850, he went to California, and was 

 in the mines until 1852 ; but two years afterwards 

 he is heard of as a resident doctor in Santa Clara 

 County, California, where he remained until his 

 death at Pasa Robles, in May, 1891. 



That he was president of the State Medical 

 Society and of the State Horticultural Society 

 and owned " one of the largest collections of 

 roses and rare bulbs in the state " gives a fairly 

 good picture of the man at home, while accounts 

 of some botanical excursions through California 

 and to the Sandwich Islands show him to have 

 been an energetic traveller and a real amateur in 

 the botanical world. He did good work as a 

 doctor, was a skillful surgeon, and was reputed to 



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