- E. NEWMAN, head miller in Ford's mills; came to Janesville
in 1859 from Akron, O., where he
- was also head miller. Mr. N. was born in England Aug. 2,
1833; served seven years apprenticeship there and had charge
of a sixteen-run mill at Bridgewater, Eng.; has been thirty-three
years in present business. Married Elizabeth B. LEAVER in 1853;
she was born in Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Eng., in 1834; they
have one child, Henry J., born in February, 1854; he now has
charge of a large mill in Kansas. Mr. E. NEWMAN is a member
of the Court Street M. E. Church, and belongs to the Odd Fellows
Lodge No. 90, also to the Western Star Lodge of Masons.
-
- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 716.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
|