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Thurber was born on September 2, 1821 in Providence, R. I. He was the son of Jacob Thurber, a business man, and Alice Ann (Martin) Thurber.
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Thurber was born on September 2, 1821 in Providence, R. I. He was the son of Jacob Thurber, a business man, and Alice Ann (Martin) Thurber.
For a time he attended the Union Classical and Engineering School of Providence, but was in the main self-educated. He early took up pharmacy, first as an apprentice, then as a proprietor in partnership with Joshua Chapin. He soon developed an interest in chemistry, and for a time he held a lectureship in this subject with the Franklin Society of Providence. Turning to botany for the sources of vegetable drugs, in time he became intimately associated with such eminent scientists as Asa Gray, George Engelmann, John Torrey, and Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz.
The New York Medical College in 1859 conferred on him the degree of M. D. In the same year he was appointed to the chair of botany and horticulture at Michigan State Agricultural College (later Michigan State College).
Plant study became an absorbing passion, and he eagerly seized the opportunity, presented in 1850, to serve as botanist, quartermaster, and commissary on the survey of the boundary between the United States and Mexico. For several years he pursued the fascinating, sometimes perilous business of collecting the native flora along the Mexican border. His herbarium assembled there, comprising many species new to scientists, formed the basis of Gray's "Plantae Novae Thurberinanae" (Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, n. s. , vol. V, 1855).
Among the new plants named for their discoverer was the cactus Cereus thurberi, subsequently cultivated in the desert regions of North Africa. Thurber held a position in the United States Assay Office in New York (1853 - 56), was lecturer in botany and materia medica at the College of Pharmacy in New York (1856-61, 1865 - 66), and also lectured on botany at Cooper Union.
In 1863 he returned to New York to become editor of the American Agriculturist. Establishing his home on a small farm, "The Pines, " near Passaic, N. J. , he cultivated an experimental garden which furnished abundant material for the columns of his journal.
His unsigned "Notes from the Pines" for years were conspicuous in horticultural literature for the extent and accuracy of their botanical information. His series entitled "The Doctor's Talks, " noted for charming simplicity of style, was designed to instruct young people on scientific subjects. Under his editorship the American Agriculturist exerted a vigorous progressive influence upon agriculture and horticulture. He gave much attention to the exposure of business and professional frauds.
His specialty was the grasses; he collected many specimens and long cherished the ambition, unhappily never realized, to publish a monograph on American grasses. He revised William Darlington's Agricultural Botany (1847) under the new title American Weeds and Useful Plants (1859), contributed botanical articles to Appleton's The American Cyclopedia (16 vols. , 1873 - 76) and the section on grasses to the Botany (1880) published by the Geological Survey of California, and supervised the editing of hundreds of rural books published by Orange Judd.
In 1885 ill-health forced him to relinquish the active direction of the journal, but he continued to contribute regularly to its columns up to the time of his death. He died in Passaic, survived by a brother and three sisters, with one of whom he had shared his home.
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He was president of the Torrey Botanical Club (1873 - 80), a life member of the American Pomological Society, a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
In 1880, on a trip abroad, he visited many European botanists and horticulturists, and in 1886 he was made a corresponding member of the Royal Horticultural Society of London.
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Professor A. J. Cook writes:
"Dr. Thurber was a great favorite among all the students. The exceeding pleasure that came to me in the multitudinous walks with Dr. Thurber and the love of natural science that came as he opened the great book of Nature in his marvelous fashion, awakened in me a loving appreciation that has deepened with the years. Dr. Thurber's government work had given him rich opportunity to solve Nature's problems, and he improved them to the utmost. His telling service in the horticultural department, and his exceptional ability to make science clear and fascinating, constituted seed of the right kind, when agricultural education was first taking root. Except for his own lamentable failing for drink what a power for good he might have become in this first Agricultural College. "
S. M. Millard '84 said of him:
"From 1860-1863 Dr. George Thurber was a professor of botany and horticulture. He was a genius, original, a great botanist, an old bachelor, and eccentric; to the student who showed any signs of talent for botany he was interested and devoted, but Dr. Thurber had no use for a stupid student. He was a scientist, but not a teacher in a college of miscellaneous students. His peculiar disposition caused him to have favorites among the students, which resulted in jealously and indifference among those not favorites. "
He never married.