Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was born in Trinidad, British West Indies back in 1869. In 1875 he was sent to a teacher-training school in Trinidad. He worked there and after several year was promoted to the rank of principal. He left for Venezuela working as a clerk in the town of La Guayra for a British-owned railroad.In 1889, he left for the United States winding up in Binghamton, New York. He enrolled in Cornell University to study Agriculture, graduating with a degree in Agriculture in 1894. With no job opportunities for him in the West Indies he started another education at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with a veterinary degree in just three years. when students walk into the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the first thing the...
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