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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JAMES S. NEWMAN, Professor of Agriculture of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Auburn, was born in Orange County, Va., in 1836. His parents were James
and Mary (Scott) Newman, natives of the same county and State. The senior Mr.
Newman was a farmer up to the time of his death, in 1886.

    James S. Newman attended the University of Virginia, where he completed the
prescribed course in 1850. He taught school two years, and in 1861 enlisted as a
private in the Confederate army. He was in active service until 1864, when,
owing to failure of his health, he was discharged. He farmed for the first two
years after leaving the army; then, at Hancock, Ga., taught a private school and
planted until 1875. From here he accepted a position with the Department of
Agriculture of Georgia, and remained there until 1883, when he was elected
Professor of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of
the Agricultural and Mechanical College.

    He is also director of the Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station of
Alabama, at Uniontown; Vice-President of the American Pomological Society, and
State Statistical Agent of the United States Department of Agriculture, and was
for three years President of the State Agricultural Society.

    Professor Newman enjoys great distinction on account of his great
proficiency as an agriculturist. His reputation as a writer is co-extensive with
the country on horticultural and agricultural subjects, and his articles are
everywhere characterized by ability. Whatever subject in his chosen field of
thought he may select for discussion or elucidation, bears the impress of deep
and careful thought, and his opinion on all matters pertaining to his profession
is accepted as authority.

    Professor Newman was married, in 1863, to Miss Elberta, daughter of Elbert
and Eliza Lewis, of Macon County, Ga. To this union five children have been
born: Clifford L., Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Natural History in the
University of Tennessee, at Knoxville; Wilson H., Assistant Agriculturist of the
Experiment Station at the Agricultural and Mechanical College, this State; Mary
S., Alba and Charles C.

    The Professor and family are communicants of the Episcopal Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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