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DR. MILTON NEWBERRY, one of the most successful medical practitioners of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is of English and Scotch descent on his paternal side and of German descent on the maternal side. He is a native of Whitemarsh township, where he was born October 4, 1829.

When he was a mere infant, his parents removed to the state of Ohio, where he remained until he had attained his ninth year, when Montgomery county again became his home. After securing the ordinary advantages of education at the public school near his home, he pursued academical studies at the Tennent school at Hartsville, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and still later he entered as a student at the celebrated institution, Treemount Seminary, Norristown, then conducted by Rev. Samuel Aaron, who won a wide reputation as a teacher. Having chosen medicine as his profession, he entered the office of Dr. John A. Rlartin, at that time a leading physician of Whitemarsh township. He also entered as a student in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in 1855. Dr. Newberry at once associated himself with his former preceptor, Dr. Martin, of Whitemarsh, and continued this professional relation until the autumn of 1858. Dr. Martin then retired from active practice, and Dr. Newberry at once entered on a successful career as a practitioner of medicine, his office being located in a very thickly populated section of country, in which he took at once a leading position as a physician which he has ever since maintained, during a period of time covering nearly a half century.

Dr. Newberry married, April 29, 1858, Lucinda C., daughter of Dr. Frederick A. Martin, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Their children were two sons, Frederick M. and George, the latter now deceased.

In his political affiliations, Dr. Newberry is a staunch Democrat, but he has been too busy attending to the urgent demands of a constantly increasing practice to seek office. He is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, which he represented as delegate at the meeting of the State Medical Society in 1858. He also served as a delegate from the Pennsylvania Medical Society at the meeting of the American Medical Association which convened at Washington in the same year.

Dr. Newberry’s family are of Quaker descent, but he was a member of the Reformed congregation of the Whitemarsh Union church and now of St. Paul’s Reformed church, of Fort Washington. Henry Newberry (great-grandfather) resided in Skippackville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, prior to the Revolutionary war. He married Miss Ann Bull. Their children were: Israel, Henry, Thomas, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Jemima, Ann, Mary and John.

John Newberry, the youngest of the family (grandfather), married Miss Sarah Gordon, whose three children were Eliza (Mrs. Samuel Martin), George and Hannah (Mrs. George Shriver). George Newberry was born in Cheltenham township, but in early manhood removed to the state of Ohio, where he resided until his death. He married Catharine Shriver, of Springfield township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and had three children: John, Milton and Anna M.

Dr. Newberry is a man who is deeply interested in the affairs of the community in which he resides, and he is always ready to assist in any movement that will promote the welfare of those around him.