DR, ABRAM P, GARBER:A Biographical Sketch.

Family History.

Religious persecution in Europe dur-ing the seventeenth century causedmany thousands of families to fleefrom their homes, and among themwere large numbers of a sect calledMennonites, who migrated soon afterto the new province of Pennsylvania-and who have since that date formeda large portion of the Pennsylvania.Germans.

Among these followers of MennoSimons was the Garber family, whoseearliest traditional residence seems tohave been near Basel, in Switzer-land (1), from which they are saidto have fled about the middle of theseventeenth century to a point on theupper Rhine known by the name of"Three Brides." (2)

Their stay here was, however, ofcomparatively short duration, as wefind them making their way a littlelater to Holland, whence they weretransported to the newly-founded Ger-mantown in William Penn's coloniz-ing venture in the New World, Theexact date of their arrival in thiscountry is not known, but it is thoughtto have been about the year 1695.

The given name of the head of the

1. For a brief account of the per-secution of the Mennonites in Switzer-land, see: Tileman Jansz- van Bragt, 'TMerg van de Historien der Martelaren.3d ed. Amsterdam: P. J. Entrop, 1769.Esp. pp. 347-376.

2. This is possibly a corruption ofthe name of the well-known town inAlsace called Neubreisach.

family at this time of migration hasnot come down to us, but for the sakeof convenience we may (as is cus-tomary with American genealogists)call him the Emigrant. The name ofhis wife is also unknown, but itseems likely that he had at least twosons, Nicholas and John. This sur-mise is based on the fact that thereare on record in the Lancaster CountyCourt House two wills in the Germanlanguage drawn up by them on Feb-ruary 24, 1748, and March 5, 1748, re-spectively. Both of these wills wereproved on June 6, 1748, and from thiswe may infer that they were brothers,living perhaps on adjacent farms anddying only a few days or weeks apart.

However this may be, it seems fair-ly certain from the evidence affordedby later records that the subject ofour sketch was not descended fromNicholas Gerber (as the name wasthen spelled).

John Gerber at the time of makinghis will was a resident of LancasterCounty, and he mentions both wifeand children, as well as his "eldestson," though none of them by name.Perhaps this "eldest son" was theChristian Gerber who made his willon November 5, 1768, and who is pret-ty definitely established to have beenthe great-great-grandfather of the sub.ject of the present sketch. (3) Thislast-mentioned will is on record atLancaster, and an abstract of it isalso to be found in the Library of theHistorical Society of Pennsylvania atPhiladelphia. (4)

This Christian Gerber, the first of

3. Alex. Harris, in his work called"A Biographical History of LancasterCounty," Lancaster, 1872, p. 230, statesthat it was this Christian Garber(Carver) who "emigrated from Ger-many sometime between the years 1700and 1720, and settled in West Hemp-field township." But this can hardlybe correct.

4. Collections, Vol. 24, page 334.

Hempfield township (5), left to hisson Christian his land and plantationin that township, to his wife Cath-erine certain bequests, and to his sonMichael a plantation in Donegaltownship. There are also mentionedhis eldest son Jacob, his son-in-lawJacob Kehr, and two grandchildren,Magdalena Neff and John Neff. Thewill was proved January 11, 1769.

Christian Gerber, the second of thatname, made his will in turn on De-cember 31, 1803, while a resident ofHempfield township. He, too, had awife Catherine and a son Christian,to whom he left the home plantation.He furthermore mentions his grand-daughter Mary, the only child of hisdeceased daughter, Mary, and twoother sons. To John he bequeaths theland he had sold him in Virginia, andto Abraham the land he had sold hintin York County nearby. Finally, hementions his daughter Ann, the wifeof Michael Segrist, and his deceaseddaughter Catherine, formerly thewife of John Stouffer. This will wasproved on November 25, 1806.

Christian Gerber (the second) like-wise had a son Christian, who mar-ried a Miss Segrist, and settled downupon his father's farm. This thirdChristian in direct line of descent hadone son Jacob B. Garber, who wasborn in the year 1800, and who be-came quite a well-known character inLancaster County before he died, ata ripe old age, in 1886. Many yearsago he said: "The house I live in wasbuilt by my father in 1812, and is thethird dwelling house erected on thisfarm, besides the squatter's cabin firstput up in the wilderness." (6)

5. It was, of course, not until alater time that the original townshipwas divided into East and WestHempfield townships.

6. Alex. Harris, op. cit-, p. 230-

Jacob B. Garber was educated atthe common school of the neighbor-hood, and even before attaining hismajority displayed a marked tastefor the study of botany. In 1832 heerected a greenhouse, said to be thefirst established in the State west ofPhiladelphia. Here he daily spentseveral hours in his favorite pursuit,and by degrees he was able to gathertogether many rare exotics. It was inthis atmosphere that his son AbramP. Garber grew up, and it was un-doubtedly the father's example andcounsel that urged on the son to be-come the famous botanical explorerthat he was.

Jacob B. Garber married Miss SusanStauffer and raised a large family ofchildren, among whom was the subjectof the present biographical sketch.He also was an editor and author ofprominence in the field of horticul-ture, and during his long life publish-ed many important articles on suchsubjects in Columbia, Lancaster, Phil-adelphia and Baltimore journals.

(Note—The above account is adapt-ed from a fuller sketch in Ellis andEvans, Hist. of Lancaster County,Philadelphia, 1883, p. 890, where a full-page portrait is also given.)

Boyhood.Abram Paschal Garber was born

January 23, 1838, on his father's farmFloral Retreat, about three miles eastof Columbia, and a short distancesouth of Chestnut Hill, near Mount-ville, West Hempfield township, Lan-caster county, Pa. There is an oilpainting extant which represents hishome at about this time, and whichshows it to have been a brick housewith a formal garden in front of it.

His early years were spent on thefarm in a beautiful agricultural re-

gion only a few miles from the banksof the Susquehanna River. LancasterCounty has been the home of manynoted botanists, and with such sur-roundings it is thus easy to under-stand why the boy's naturally studi-ous bent directed him at a very earlyage to the subject of botany, to whichthe greater part of his comparativelyshort life was so successfully devoted.

Millersville Normal School.

When A. P. Garber was still in histeens there was founded, in 1854, anacademy for the education of theyoung people of the State, which wasshortly to develop into a normalschool. This was located a few milesfrom his home, at Millersville, andthe growing lad was soon attractedto its atmosphere of study. He enter-ed as a student here, apparently, inthe autumn of 1856, and a little latersigned the constitution of the PageLiterary Society.

He continued at Millersville, withvarious interruptions, until the sum-mer of 1865, when he graduated with aclass of twelve young men and wo-men. It was during this period ofnine years that he taught for severalwinters public schools in various partsof Lancaster county, and then becameprincipal of Catasauqua Seminarynear Allentown, where he had fouror five other teachers under him. (7)

Of his life at Millersville we havevarious information in the way ofofficial and semi-official records, aswell as in the personal reminiscencesof several people still living who knewhim at that time. While here he

7. See obituary by S. S- Rathvon be-for the Linnaean Society of Lancaster,in 1881; and also Mathews and Hunger-ford, "History of the Counties ofLehigh and Carbon," Philadelphia, 1884,p- 260, where his name is wronglyspelt Garler.

boarded with Mrs. Elizabeth Warfelopposite the school, going home toMountville at the end of each week.His landlady still (May, 1914) re-members him as a "good boy," whodid not give her the trouble that someof her other school boarders did. Hotook good care of himself, as hishealth even then was not of the best,and oftentimes when the boys wentout on some expedition he would re-frain from joining them on that ac-count.

One of his classmates, Mr. JohnMorrow, late Assistant District Super-intendent of the Pittsburgh PublicSchools, wrote under date of June 18,1914, as follows:

"I roomed with Garber for manymonths. We were very intimateand always took walks together alongthe banks and silent waters of theConestoga. Garber was a great bot-anist and seemed to be quite familiarwith the flora of Lancaster County,as well as that of other sections ofthe State.

"A. P. Garber inherited his botanicaltendencies from his parents. I had apleasing visit of several days withhim at his home. His father had agreenhouse filled with a great varietyof plants. This was the favorite re-sort of the senior Garber, and nodoubt young Garber, in his early child-hood, acquired a taste for plants andflowers from his youthful environmentand paternal associations

It was during the Millersville periodalso that he became a member of thenewly-founded Linnaean Society ofLancaster, and until the time of hisdeath he took great interest in itspros edings and was frequently anenthusiastic participant in its fieldmeetings.

In this period, too, falls A. P. Gar-

ber's brief military experience as aprivate in Company C of the 195thPennsylvania Volunteers. During thelate summer and early fall of 1864 hesaw service in West Virginia, Mary-land and Pennsylvania. There is stillin the possession of his family a littlapocket testament which was givento him in Baltimore soon after he en-listed, and which he carried with himin his campaign.

Lafayette College.

A. P. Garber had early been at-tracted to the well-known botanist Dr.Thomas C. Porter, then a professor atFranklin and Marshall College atLancaster. So when the time cameto select a college in which to pursuehis further studies it is not strangethat his choice fell upon LafayetteCollege at Easton, Pa. For by thattime his much-admired professor hadleft Franklin and Marshall for La-fayette. That he was a close studentand proficient in his scientific work isevidenced by the fact that he was ableto enter the Junior class in the fallof 1865, and to graduate in the scien-tific department in 1868, with an es-say entitled "The Lesser Virtues."

At Lafayette College he became amember of the Washington LiterarySociety, and immediately upon gradua-tion he was appointed an Assistant InNatural History. This position he heldfrom 1868 to 1870, and during thistime began the extensive botanical ex-plorations which were later to bringhis name prominently before thescientific world (8). In September,1868, he visited Erie and explored theLake Shore and Presque Isle; while

8. Selden J- Coffin, "The Men ofLafayette," Easton; 1891, pp- 91, 131,188, 299, 304 and 311; John FranklinStonecipher, "Biographical Catalogueof Lafayette College," Easton, 1913, pp.18 and 151.

during the months of August andSeptember in the year following hetraveled along the whole tier of north-ern counties from Wayne to Erie, andthen southward through the countieswest of the Alleghanies as far as theVirginia line. Later in the same ser-vice he made an excursion with thelate Thomas P. James into the Poconoregion of Monroe and Pike counties,and brought back a fine collection ofmosses and liverworts. These labors,in the interest of the herbarium ofLafayette CoHeger were made underthe direction of Dr. Thomas C. Porter,Professor of Botany, and securedmany valuable additions to the floraof the State; and although nothingwholly new to science was at this timediscovered by him, at least twenty-seven species were added as foundonly by him (9).

As a Physician.

Dr. Garber's medical career ex-tended, in all, over a period of aboutseven years; about half of this timehe was a student of medicine, andabout half a physician for the insane.

While still at Lafayette College hebegan the study of medicine under thedirection of Dr. Traill Green (10), theprofessor of chemistry, and when nematriculated on October 14, 1869, inthe School of Medicine of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, in Philadel-phia, his residence was given as Ea3-ton, Pa.

Of his life here until he graduated in1872 we know but little except thathis essay was entitled "The MedicalPlants of Pennsylvania," in which title

9. Ellis & Evans "History of Lan-caster County," Philadelphia, 1883, p.294 (by Dr. H. B. Stehman).

10. Ellis and Evans, loc- cit.

we can readily discern the botanistcombined with the physician (11).

In April, 1872, Dr. Garber becameAssistant Resident Physician in theHarrisburg State Lunatic Hospital,living in the building itself and havingcharge of some two hundred patients.He remained in this position untilMay, 1875, when ill-health caused himto resign (12).

After leaving Harrisburg Dr. Gar-ber opened an office as a practisingphysician in Pittsburgh, but the try-ing climate of this great manufactur-ing city told further upon his health,and after a few months he was obligedto leave Pennsylvania and to seek amore friendly Southern clime (13).

Explorations In Florida.

The inroads of consumption had bythis time seriously impaired Dr. Gar-ber's health, and from now on it ap-peared to him to be imperative that hespend his winters in a warmer climatethan that of Pennsylvania. Accord-ingly we find him from this time onmaking yearly trips to Florida and theWest Indies, returning during thesummer to his home in LancasterCounty.

Strange to say, an indirect result ofhis ill health was to make his namefamous in the scientific world, and toattach his name permanently to quitea number of Florida plants. The de-famous in the scientific world, and tobotanical explorations in many partsof the peninsula and the adjoiningislands are not known to us. Our

11. Letter from Dean William Pep-per, May 5, 1914, to G. C. K. (Officialcommunication-)

12. Ellis and Evans, loc- cit.; andofficial communication from the Hos-pital, May 15, 1914-

13. Ignatius Urban, Symbolae An-tillanae, Lipsiae, 1902-1903, Vol. III.51.

scanty information concerning themcomes chiefly from Dr. Garber him-self, in the form of published articlesand in correspondence with scientificfriends.

In the archives of the SmithsonianInstitution at Washington there ispreserved a series of eleven letterswhich he addressed from time to timeto Dr. George Vasey, who was at thattime in charge of the botanical workof the Department of Agriculture atWashington. These letters all referto his trips to Florida, and they thro van interesting light upon his viewsconcerning the flora of the peninsulathen so little known.

At the time when Dr. Garber visitedFlorida its flora was still awaiting in-vestigation to a considerable extent,and it was his good fortune to be ableto avail himself fully of this situation,and, hence, we find him making greatadditions to the world's knowledge ofthe flora of this part of the UnitedStates. By distributing many thou-sands of specimens to herbaria, bothin his own country and in Europe,his discoveries have become widelyknown among botanists, and his nameoccurs in almost all books dealingwith this field.

A more personal note may well beadded at this point by quoting from aletter written by Dr. Garber fromMiama, Fla., May 16, 1877, to Dr.George Vasey:

"I shall keep a sharp lookout for theUlmus and Taxus you mention, butthink they do not grow so far south-The vegetation is markedly differenthere from that of Middle North andWest Florida, especially so in thewoody growths. Then, too, a greatervariation in size—Erythrina, which Ihave met in the latitude of CedarKeys and Mellonville, was always a

shrub four to five feet high—here it :3common and generally of the samesize. but also not uncommonly as-sumes the tree form and attains aheight of twenty to thirty feet. Imeasured the trunk of one and foundit seventeen inches in circumference,and guessed the height to be aboutthirty feet. The Mangrove I meethere as a shrub and sometimesa tree fully one hundred feet high.--taller than any other tree. Blackmangrove (Avicennia tomentosa),which at Cedar Keys is a shrub sixto eight feet high, appears here al-ways as a tree from thirty—fullysixty feet in height. Hummocks hereare dense jungles of woody growth,very difficult to penetrate. The liveoak is less plenty than farther north,but always occurs on the edges alongthe pines and is in many places liter-ally covered with Tillandsia and Epi-dendron.

"I encounter a good many disad-vantages in exploring and drying here,but altogether my success was goodand I am very well satisfied with theprogress. I think I will have somenew to our flora and possiblyto science. I should like to delaylonger in order to collect some plantsin better stages, but it is not unlikelythat I will meet many of the sameplants at Ft. Myers and Peas Creekwhere I now propose to go. The Mailfacilities there are not good and prob-ably a month will enable me collectall there, and thence to Manitee andTampa. To the last named place Iwill have my mail sent now.

Very truly,A. P. GARBER."

St. Thomas and Porto Rico.

A Danish botanist, Baron Eggers,was at this time exploring the West

Indies, and at his suggestion Dr. Gar-ber made a trip to the Island of 3t.Thomas, one of the British WestIndies. What the results of this tripmay have been have not been ascer-tained, but it seems likely that manyof the plants then obtained were in-corporated in the collection whichBaron Eggers himself was making atthat time.

At the same botanist's suggestionDr. Garber also made a trip to PortoRico, in the early part of the year1881, and succeeded in making a smallcollection of plants. Among the pub-lished letters of Professor Asa Gray,of Harvard University, there is onewhich refers to the proposed sale ofDr. Garber's small Porto Rican col-lection. Yauco was his headquartershere; but the expected benefit to hishealth from his stay on the island didnot materialize (14).

Last Illness and Death.

Returning to his home in LancasterCounty in the month of June, 1881, Dr.Garber settled down for the summeras usual on his father's farm, but theextremely hot weather soon affectedhim in his depleted condition sogreatly that he was fain to seek reliefin the mountains of North CentralPennsylvania. Here towards the endof August his condition became soalarming that he determined to returnto his home. But he was only ableto reach the summer resort of Renova,in Clinton county, before his strengthgave out. He, therefore, sent word tohis younger brother, Hiram L. Garber,to come to his assistance; but beforehis brother was able to reach him Dr.Garber passed away on August 25,1881.

His remains were brought back to

14. Ignatius Urban, op. cit-, Vol. III,p. 51, and Vol- IV (1903-1911), p. 670.

his old home by his brother, and therethey were buried in the family grave-yard on the adjacent farm by the sideof his ancestors and relatives of manygenerations. (15)

This old burying ground has nowbeen neglected for many years, and atthe present time no trace of Dr. Gar-ber's grave can be found. The spotis so thickly covered with high weeds,locust and blackberry bushes that itcan only be penetrated with difficulty.Many of the graves and tombstoneshave sunken so far into the groundthat it is impossible to read the in-scriptions. The immediate familyhave all either died or removed toother parts of the country, and, hence,his grave is thus neglected (16).

The A. P. Garber Herbarium.

It is not definitely known when Dr.Garber began the formation of a her-barium of his own, but this probab'yoccurred some time during his Mil-lersville period. From remarks hereand there in his correspondence withDr. Vasey, and from other sources ofinformation, we become aware of hisinterest in collecting plants of allsorts. His own personal efforts in thisdirection were largely supplementedby exchanges with various correspond-ents, until at length his private col-lections came to assume considerableproportions.

In February, 1885, his brotherHiram L. Garber sold the herbariumfor a nominal sum to Franklin andMarshall College at Lancaster, withthe stipulation that it should be knownby the name of The A. P. Garber Her-barium, and this has been its namedown to the present time.

15. Letter from Hiram L- Garber,May 31, 1914, to G. C- K-

16. Letter from Miss Ida M- Kim-mich, Mountville, Pa., Aug. 3, 1914, toG. C- K-

In the College Student for February,1886, Professor John S. Stahr pub-lished a general account of the her-barium, which still remains the bestand fullest description of its variedcontents (17). Since that time the col-lection has been twice rearranged, andportions of it have been transferred tothe herbaria of Columbia Universityand the Botanical Garden in NewYork in exchange for other speci-mens (18).

Contributions to Other Herbaria.

At the present time it is quite im-possible to enumerate all the her-baria, both large and small, which con-tain dried plants collected by Dr. Gar-ber. The best list so far publishedseems to be that given by ProfessorUrban, but even this is extremely In-complete (19). Besides those alreadymentioned we may note the UnitedStates National Herbarium in theSmithsonian Institution at Washing-ton, the Herbarium at Kew Gardens inLondon, where there are 142 PortoRican plants, the Gray Herbarium atHarvard University, the Canby Her-barium now in the College of Phar-macy of New York, the Herbarium ofLafayette College at Easton, Pa., andthe Academy of Natural Sciences Her-barium in Philadelphia.

The specimens preserved in theseform the basis of much of the ad-vanced work of botanists who devotetheir attention to the peninsula ofFlorida with its many interestingvegetable forms.

17. College Student, Lancaster, Pa..Vol. VI, No- 5, pp- 81-83-

18. Letter from Professor R- C.Schiedt, May 24, 1914, to G. C- K., sup-plemented by two personal visits ofthe latter.

19. Ignatius Urban, op- cit.. Vol.III, p- 51

Plants Named After Dr. Garber.Even before his death his fellow

botanists began naming Florida plantsafter Dr. Garber, and this process isstill going on. Every year or twoanother plant is added to the list untilit has become quite a long one.

These plants have been describedin a great variety of books and periodi-cals which cannot, of course, beenumerated here. Suffice it to namethe following:

Coccothrinax Garberi, a species ofpalm; Convolvulus Garberi, a speciesof morning glory; Eugenia Garberi, aspecies of myrtle (called also Gar-ber's Stopper); Euphorbia Garberi, aspecies of spurge; Fissidens Garberi, aspecies of moss; Habenella ,Garberi, aspecies of orchid (called also Ha-benaria Garberi); Laciniaria Garberi,a species of snakeroot; Salvia oc-cidentalis Garberi, a species of sage;Sphagnum Garberi, a species of moss;and Thrinax Garberi, a species ofpalm.

Professor Asa Gray also named theGarberia, a genus of the thistles, af-ter him, and this distinction gave thediscoverer a great deal of pleasureand satisfaction during the last yearsof his life.

Character and Appreciations.

We may perhaps most fittinglyclose this brief sketch of the life ofan earnest student of nature by citingthe estimates of his character and at-tainments given after his death by va-rious people who knew him well manyyears ago.

His roommate at Millersville, Mr.John Morrow, said: "He was a youngman of very pleasing disposition. Inever saw him in the least ruffled orout of humor with any one would be glad if it could be truthfully

said of every young man that he hadsuch a galaxy of admirable qualitiesas A. P. Garber. After a lapse ofnearly fifty years, I have the mostpleasant recollections of all my as-sociations with him." (20)

Dr. J. T. Rothrock, a fellow botan-ist of his own day, states that he knewhim quite well. "He was very suc-cessful, careful and reliable, not onlyas a collector, but as an observer.The beautiful collections that he madein Florida were very highly esteemedby those who were fortunate enoughto secure a share of them. Dr. Graythought very highly of Dr. Garber. Ioften heard him speak of Dr. Gar-ber most kindly" (21).

And finally Dr. Thomas C. Porter,his most intimate scientific friend, inspeaking of him, once said: "Frommy long and pleasant association withhim I am able to say that he was amost patient, thorough and accuratestudent, skilled in the use of the mi-croscope and an accomplished natu-ralist. His powers of observationwere very acute, as shown by hisletters and notes, and the specimensprepared by him excelled in everyway. Quiet, modest, faithful, an agree-able companion, and an earnest Chris-tian, the tidings of his early deathcaused profound sorrow and regret tohis scientific friends andassociates." (22)

BIBLIOGRAPHY.A.—By A. P. Garber.

1. A. P. Garber, Anonymous articles(?) in Page Monthly, Millersville,Pa., 1859-1860.

20. Letter dated June 18- 1914- toP. M. Harbold- He died Aug 16, 1914.

21. Letter dated June 18, 1914, toG. C. K-

22. Ellis and Evans, op- cit-, p. 294,quoted in chapter written by Dr. H.B. Stehman-

2. A. P. Garber, The Lesser Virtues(unpublished?). Graduation es-say at Lafayette College, Easton,Pa., July 29, 1868.

3. A. P. Garber, Medical Plants ofPennsylvania (unpublished?)Graduation essay at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, Medical De-partment, Philadelphia, April (?),1872.

4. A. P. Garber, Notes on Tillandsia,in Botanical Gazette, Vol. II(1877), p. 59.

5. A. P. Garber, Botanical Rambles .nEast Florida, in Botanical Gazette,Vol II (1877), pp. 70 and 82.

6. A. P. Garber, Botanical Rambles inMiddle Florida, in Botanical Ga-zette, Vol. II (1877), p. 102.

7. A. P. Garber, Ferns in SouthFlorida, in Botanical Gazette, Vol.III (1878), pp. 82-85.

B.—Concerning A. P. Garber.

1. J. I. Mombert, An Authentic His-tory of Lancaster County, in theState of Pennsylvania. Lancaster,Pa.: J. E. Barr & Co., 1869. Seepp. 581, 586, 587, 588, 597, 599and 602.

2. A. W. Chapman, in Botanical Ga-zette, Vol III (1878), p. 12(Thrinax Garberi).

3. Lesquereux and James, in Proceed-ings of the American Academy ofArts and Sciences, Vol. XIV(1878-1879), pp. 133-134 (Spha-gnum Garberi); p. 137 (FissidensGarberi).

4. Asa Gray, On the Genus Garberia,in Proceedings of the Academy ofNatural Sciences of Philadelphia,1879, pp. 379-380.

5. The Gardener's Monthly and Hor-ticulturist, devoted to Horticul-ture, Arboriculture and Rural Af-fairs. edited by Thomas Meehan.

State Botanist of Pennsylvania:Vol. XXI, 1879, Philadelphia,Charles H. Marot, Publisher,1879. 4to, II and 384 pp. P. 369[Editorial Notes] Garberia.

6. Leopold Just, Botanischer Jahres-bericht, 7. Jahrg. (1879), 2. Abth.,p. 625 (Garberia).

7. Bulletin de la Societe Botanique deFrance, t. 27e (1880), RevueBibliographique, p. 91 (SphagnumGarberi, Fissidens Garberi).

8. Leopold Just, Botanischer Jahres-bericht, 8. Jahrg. (1880), 2. Abth.,PP. 98 and 491 (both Garberia).

9. Thomas C. Porter, in BotanicalGazette, Vol. V (1880), p. 135 (Ha-benaria Garberi).

10. The Lancaster Farmer, April,1880, pp. 50, col. 3-51, col. 1; Gar-beria: An Honor Conferred Upona Lancaster County Botanist.

11. Botanisches Centralblatt, 1. Jahrg.(1880), p. 5 (Sphagnum Garberi,Fissidens Garberi); p. 128 (LiatrisGarberi).

12. Torrey Botanical Club, Bulletin,Vol. VIII (1881), p. 43 (Floridanplants).

13. Leopold Just, Botanischer Jahres-bericht, 9. Jahrg: (1881), 2. Abth.,PP. 143 and 478 (both Garberia).

14. A. H. Curtiss, Chapmannia andGarberia, in Botanical Gazette,Vol. VI (1881), pp. 257-259.

15 Obituary in Daily Examiner, Lan-caster, Pa., August 27, 1881.

16. Obituary in The Harrisburg DailyPatriot, Sept. 6, 1881, p. 4, col. 1(best notice).

17. Obituary in Weekly Courant, Co-lumbia, Pa., September 1, 1881, p.3, col. 4.

18. Obituary in Weekly Courant, Co-lumbia, Pa., September 8, 1881,p. 3, col. 2.

19. Obituary in The New Era, Lan-caster, Pa., October 3, 1881, p. 3,col. 2.

20. [S. S. Rathvon], Obituary read be-fore Linnaean Society, October 2.1881; published in the LancasterFarmer, Vol XIII 1881), pp. 156,col- 3-157, col. 3.

21. Torrey Botanical Club, Bulletin,Vol. X (1883), p. 35 (EuphorbiaGarberi).

22. A. W. Chapman, Flora of theSouthern United States. 2d. ed.New York: 1883. See pp. 607-673(passim),esp- p. 651 (Thrinax Gar-beri).

23. Charles S. Sargent, Forest Treesof North America, 10th Census,Vol IX (1884), p. 89 (Eugenia Gar-beri); p. 217, No. 406 (ThrinaxGarberi).

24. John S. Stahr, The A. P. GarberHerbarium, in College Student,Lancaster, Pa., Vol. VI (No. 5,Feb., 1886), pp- 81-83.

25. Annual Register of Franklin andMarshall College and the Theo-logical Seminary, Lancaster, Pa.,1885-1886. Lancaster, Pa.: Stein-man & Hensel, printers, 1886.See p. 20 (A. P. Garber Her-barium).

26. C. S. S., in Garden and Forest,Vol. II (1889), p. 87 (Eugenia Gar-beri).

27. Otto Kuntze, Revisio GenerumPlantar -m Vascularium Omniumatque Cellularium Multarium.Pars I. Leipzig: A. Felix, 1891.See p. 349 (Laciniaria Garberi).

28. Selden J. Coffin, The Men of La-fayette, 1826-1893: Lafayette Col-lege, Its History, Its Men, TheirRecord. Easton: George W. West,1891. 8vo., 342 pp- See PP. 91,131, 188, 299, 304 and 311.

29. Charles S. Sargent, Silva of NorthAmerica, Vol. I. Boston and NewYork: Houghton Mifflin & Co.,1891. See pp. 65-66, note 1 (bi-ography).

30. Charles S. Sargent, Silva of NorthAmerica, Vol. V (1893), p. 49 andTab. CCIX (Eugenia Garberi).

31. Charles S. Sargent, Silva of NorthAmerica, Vol. X (1896), p. 50,notes 1 and 2 (Thrinax Garberi).

32. George B. Sudworth, Nomen-clature of the Arborescent Floraof the United States. Washington:Government Printing Office, 1897,8vo., VIII, 419 pp. (U. S. De-partment of Agriculture, Divisionof Forestry, Bulletin No. 14). Seep. 306 (Eugenia Garberi). [Gar-ber Stopper.]

33. Thomas Conrad Porter, The Penn-sylvania German in the Field ofthe Natural Sciences, in Proceed-ings of the Pennsylvania GermanSociety. Vol 6. Published by theSociety, 1896. See pp. 34-35 (withportrait of A. P. Garber). [Pp.22-38, an address at Bethlehem,October 16, 1895].

34. George B. Sudworth, Check Listof the Forest Trees of the UnitedStates, Their Names and Ranges.Washington: Government Print-ing Office, 1898. 8vo., 144 pp.(U. S. Department of Agriculture,Division of Forestry, Bulletin No.17). See p. 99 (Eugenia Garberi).

35. John W. Harshberger, The Botan-ists of Philadelphia and TheirWork. Philadelphia: 1899. 8vo.,XII and 457 pp. See pp. 4, 25,282, 302, 303 and 347.

36. Charles Sprague Sargent, New orLittle Known North AmericanTrees, in Botanical Gazette, Vol.XXVII (1899), pp. 81-94. See p. 90(Coccothrina Garberi, nom. nov.).

37. Thomas C. Porter, Rare Plants ofSoutheastern Pennsylvania, 1900.See P. 8.

38. Charles S. Sargent, Silva of NorthAmerica, Vol. XIV (1902), p. 85,note 1 (Coccothrinax Garberi andThrinax Argentea, var. Garberi).

39. Joseph Henry Dubbs, History ofFranklin and Marshall College.Lancaster: 1903. See pp. 343,368 (both Garber Herbarium).

40. Thomas Conrad Porter, Catalogueof the Bryophyta andPteridophyta found in Penn-sylvania. Boston: Ginn & Com-pany, 1904. See preface and pp.3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 54, etc.

41. Charles Sprague Sargent, Manualof the Trees of North America,1905. See p. 697 (Eugenia Gar-beri, with illus.).

42. Nathaniel Lord Britton, NorthAmerican trees, 1908, See PP.726-727 (Eugenia Garberi, with il-lus.—Garber's Stopper).

43. John Kunkel Small, Flora of Mi-ami, New York 1913. See pp. 51-52 (Habenella Garberi); p. 104(Phyllanthus Garberi); p. 109Chamaesyce Garberi); p. 132 (Eu-genia Garberi).

44. John Kunkel Small, Flora of theFlorida Keys. New York, 1913.See p. 37 (Habenella Garberi);p. 77 (Phyllanthus Garberi); p.80 (Chamaesyce Garberi); p. 104(Eugenia Garberi).

45. George C. Keidel, Abram PascalGarber, B. S., A. M., M. D., Classof 1865, in The Normal Journal(Millersville, Lancaster Co., Pa.),

Vol. XXVII, No. 4 (August, 1914),pp. 19-20.

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Author: Keidel, George C. (George Charles), 1868-1942.

Title: Dr. Abram P. Garber : a biographical sketch / by George C. Keidel, Ph.D.

Primary Material: Book

Subject(s): Garber, Abram P., 1838-1881. Garber family.

Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914

Description: 199-219 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 8

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.18Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room)

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