California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


DENWOOD N. L. NEWBURY, M. D. Talented, skillful, and well acquainted with 
the most modern methods used in the treatment of diseases, Denwood N. L. Newbury, 
M. D., of Bakersfield, has won an assured position among the leading physicians and sur- 
geons of Kern county. Although a general practitioner, he makes a specialty of surgery, 
and is considered an authority on women's diseases, which he treats with great success. 
A son of Edward S. E. Newbury, he was born December 24, 1867, in Lambertville, Hunter- 
don county, N. J. He is descended from a southern family of prominence, his grand- 
father, Joseph D. Newbury, a large plantation owner, and a man of influence, having been a 
life-long resident of North Carolina. He and one of his sons served in the Confederate 
army during the Civil war. 

Born and reared on the North Carolina plantation, Edward S. E. Newbury ran away 
from home when young, and as captain of a company in the Twenty-second New Jersey 
Volunteer Infantry, was one of the bravest soldiers in the Union army. He served 
throughout the war, taking part in many important engagements, and was thirteen times 
wounded, once through the breast. He subsequently became a contractor and bridge- 
builder, and now, at the age of sixty-eight years, is living retired from active pursuits. 
He married Margaret L. Sprout, who was born in New York state, but reared in Lam- 
bertville, N. J., where her father was a large manufacturer. She died December 15, 1899, 
in her fifty-sixth year. 

After acquiring a practical education in the public schools of Elizabeth, N. J., Denwood 
N. L. Newbury went to New York City, and for seven years was employed as a roadman 
in a wholesale millinery store. At the age of twenty-four years he entered the medical de- 
partment of Columbia University in that city, and took a full course of three years. Pass- 
ing the required examinations most creditably, he was for the next two years an interne in 
the St. Francis Hospital, and afterward visiting surgeon to the same. Subsequently Dr. 
Newbury was appointed one of the faculty of the Post Graduate College, being the youngest 
man ever thus honored, and for some time held the chair of women's diseases. During 
the time the doctor had a large private practice, his office being located at the corner of 
Sixty-fourth street and the boulevard. Leaving New York City in 1901, he came to Cali- 
fornia, and at once settled in Bakersfield, where he has established a good practice. 

On September 21, 1898, in New York City, Dr. Newbury married Susan Chatfield, a na- 
tive of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and they have one son, Denwood Wallace Newbury, born 
December 11, 1900. The doctor is liberal in his political views. Fraternally he belongs to 
the Masons, the Foresters and" to the Eagles.