THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
Vol. XVI. AUGUST, 1895. No. 2. 
JOSEPH GRANVILLE NORWOOD, M. D., LL. D. 
By (t. C. Broadhead, University of Missouri, Columbia, IHo. 
(Portrait, Plate IV.) 
John Norwood, an English gentleman, was born in London 
and came to Virginia about 1740. He was an accomplished 
mathematician and left to his eldest son two maniiscrii)t 
works on mathematics.* 
Charles, the eldest son of John Norwood, was born in 1753, 
and was a Revolutionary soldier. He was twice married, the 
first time, in 1781, to Anna Dale. After her death he moved 
to Kentucky, settling in Woodford county, and within a few 
years married Mildred Dale, a sister of his first wife. She was 
the mother of Joseph G. Norwood. During the second war 
with Great Britain Charles Norwood operated a powder mill, 
which he sold soon after the war closed and settled on a small 
farm near Lexington, where he died in 1882. 
Joseph Granville Norwood was born in Woodfortl county, 
Kentucky, DecendK-r 20, 1807. When six years of age he at- 
tended a school taught by a Scotchman named Buchanan. 
When nine years old he entered the school of Aldrich and 
Vaughan, taught on the Lancastrian system. The school con- 
tained nearly four hundred pupils, whose studies ranged from 
the lowest primary to higher mathematics. He remained in 
this school for about five years, officiating as head monitor 
during the last two years. Young Norwood's father moved 
*One of these books was shown to me })y the late Dr. Norwood and is 
now in the jjossession of the Norwood family. 
