Joseph Young Bergen

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Joseph Young Bergen (1851-1917) was an American scientist, born at Red Beach, Me. He graduated in 1872 at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), and was for a time successively a member of the Ohio Geological Survey and professor of natural sciences in Lombard University (Salisbury, Ill.) In 1883 he became principal of the Peabody, Mass. high school and subsequently an instructor in the English high school of Boston (1889-1901). His publications include a text-book of Physics (with Prof E. H. Hall); Elements of Botany (1906); Principles of Botany (with B. M. Davis, 1906); Practical Botany (with O. W. Caldwell, 1911); Introduction to Botany (with O. W. Caldwell, 1914)