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Wesley Newcomb
Wesley Newcomb (1818–1892) was an American physician and a malacologist who specialized in land snails.
Life.
Wesley Newcomb was born in New York in 1818. His father was physician Simon Newcomb. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College (now Thomas Jefferson University) and Castleton Medical College in Vermont.
He traveled to San Francisco in 1849, and Honolulu, Hawaii in 1850.
He went into practice with Dr. William Hillebrand who married his stepdaughter Anna Post on November 16, 1852.
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (9 August 1879, Oakland, California21 October 1918, Alameda, California) was an American jurist. He was the author of the seminal "Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays" (1919).
During his life he published only a handful of law journal articles. After his death the material forming the basis of "Fundamental Legal Conceptions" was derived from two articles in the "Yale Law Journal" (1913) and (1917) that