. Annals of horticulture in North America for the year 1893. A witness of passing events and a record of progress. Comprising and account of the horticulture of the Columbian exposition. Fruit-culture; Gardening. Necrology of i8go. 291. GEORGE THURBER. Dr. Thurber, long known to all lovers of rural life as one of our most genial writers, died in April. The following sketch of him was prepared by Dr. Byron D. Halsted, of Rut- gers College, who knew him long and intimately. The por- trait is a faithful interpretation of the most characteristic pho- tograph extant. George Thurber, A. M,, M. D., a
. Annals of horticulture in North America for the year 1893. A witness of passing events and a record of progress. Comprising and account of the horticulture of the Columbian exposition. Fruit-culture; Gardening. Necrology of i8go. 291. GEORGE THURBER. Dr. Thurber, long known to all lovers of rural life as one of our most genial writers, died in April. The following sketch of him was prepared by Dr. Byron D. Halsted, of Rut- gers College, who knew him long and intimately. The por- trait is a faithful interpretation of the most characteristic pho- tograph extant. George Thurber, A. M,, M. D., a brief sketch of whose life and labors is herewith recorded, was born in Providence, R. I., on September 2, 1821, and died at his home near Passaic, N. J., on April 2 of the present year, and was, therefore, in the 69th year of his age. In ancestral lines he was of Scotch descent. As a boy he possessed a special fondness for natural history, and after enjoying a partial course in the Union Classical and En- gineering School of Providence, he became interested in pharmacy and served an apprenticeship as an apothecary, at the end of which period he engaged in that business for himself and was soon a master of the history and derivation of every drug in his store. During this time he became en- thusiastic in chemistry and botany in addition to his strictly pharmaceutical studies. His appointment soon after, as lecturer upon chemistry at the Franklin Society of his native city, is sufficient evidence of the early prog- ress in sciences of the rising apothecary. A copy of Turner's chemistry in the possession of his relatives shows that it was a present to him by his class in 1840, or when he was only nineteen years of age. While fond of the natural sciences in general, he found his greatest delight in botany, a branch of science congenial with his occupation, and particularly adapted. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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