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"M. A. Newman"

DR. M. A. NEWMAN, dentist; born in Alexandria, Jefferson Co., N.Y., April 16, 1841. In
1857, he moved to Binghamton, N.Y. In May, 1861, he enlisted under the first call of the President, in Co. D, 27th N.Y.V.I.; was in the first battle of Bull Run; he afterward re-enlisted as Orderly Sergeant, in Co. F, 155th N.Y.V.I.; served one year in this regiment and was then transferred to the Provost Marshal's Department of New York, serving thus till the close of the war. Dr. N. practiced dentistry eight years in Binghamton, N.Y., in 1873, graduated at the Pennsylvania Dental School and came to Janesville in the spring of the same year, where he has since devoted himself more especially to operative dentistry, performing all the various surgical operations upon the natural teeth. Dr. N. is a member of the Odd Fellows, and is, at present, First Lieutenant of the "Janesville Guards."
 
Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis." (c)1879, p. 716.
 
Courtesy of Carol

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