Xll BIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSOR NEWTON. 



versity at Columbus, Ohio, a recently organized but already vigorous insti- 

 tution, and one that promises to be among the strongest of western colleges. 

 Had he lived this would probably have been the field of his labors for many 

 years, and we can hardly imagine one better adapted to his tastes and 

 talents. Columbus is situated but a few miles distant from the Hocking 

 Valley coal and iron region, which has proved to be one of the richest in 

 the country, where furnaces are multiplying at a rapid rate, and where 

 increasing thousands are deriving subsistence, and many wealth, from the 

 iron and steel industries. Here he would have found immediate application 

 for the knowledge gained in years of study and observation, and by bring- 

 ing to the aid of the Ohio iron masters the last results of progress elsewhere, 

 and a keen and suggestive intellect for the solution of all new problems, he 

 would have been to them a most efficient helper, and would doubtless have 

 gained for himself fame and fortune. It is, of course, useless to speculate 

 upon what would have been the career of Mr. Newton if he had been per- 

 mitted to enter upon the life thus opened to him ; but when we consider the 

 keen and logical quality of his mind, his already great acquirement, his 

 indefatigable industry, and his gentleness and equanimity, which secured 

 the affection as well as the respect of all who knew him, we cannot but 

 conclude that it would have been eminently successful. 



To his family, by whom he was idolized, and to his friends, who all 

 loved as well as admired him, his loss is, of course, irreparable. We may 

 also say that, from his peculiar qualifications to take a leading part in 

 the development of the great industries which are to be among the most 

 important elements in our national prosperity, his early death must also be 

 regarded as a great public calamity. 



Yours, very truly, 



J. S. NEWBERRY. 



