THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
Vol. XII. JULY. L893. No. 1. 
JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY. 
By Jobn I. Stevenson, New York. 
John Strong Newberry, M. ]).. LL. 1).. was horn at Windsor, 
Conn., on December 2:M, 1S2^. He was a descendant of 
Thomas Newberry, who settled at Dorchester, Mass., about 
1630, and whose widow with her sons removed to Windsor, 
Conn., in 1(58(5. The family resided in Windsor for nearly two 
centuries and held a prominent place in the affairs of the col- 
ony, several of them having held commissions and done good 
service in the French and Indian war. in the expedition against 
Carthagena and in the Revolution. His grandfather, General 
Roger Newberry, held the rank of brigadier general in 17M. 
and became a member of the Connecticut Land company 
which bought from the state of Connecticut the northern 
counties of Ohio, known as the ••Western Reserve." 
Soon after Dr. Newberry's birth, his lather. Henry New- 
berry, moved to Ohio, taking up his lather's land at the falls 
of the Cuyahoga, where he founded the town of Cuyahoga 
Falls. Four years later, in 1828, he opened coal mines near 
Tallmadge, and w;is the first to make systematic efforts to in- 
troduce coal as ;i fuel along the Lake Shore region. The rich 
flora shown in the roof -hales of these mines early attracted 
the son*- attention so that, prior to 1841, he had made an ad- 
mirable collection of ( !oal Measure plants. In that year Prof. 
James Hall, while on his way from Cleveland southwestward, 
