John Strong Newberry

John Strong Newberry (1822 to 1892) was an American physician, geologist and paleontologist, born in Windsor, Connecticut and raised in northeastern Ohio, where fossils in his father's coal deposits stirred his interest in science. He graduated from Western Reserve College in 1846 and Cleveland Medical School in 1848, studied medicine and natural history in Paris, and practised in Cleveland. He took part as naturalist, surgeon or geologist in expeditions exploring the country from San Francisco to the Columbia River, the Colorado River, and southwestern Colorado and adjacent regions, and he was the first geologist known to visit the Grand Canyon. During the Civil War he served as secretary of the western department of the United States Sanitary Commission. After the war he became professor of geology and paleontology at the Columbia University School of Mines and chief geologist of the Geological Survey of Ohio.