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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOHN WILLIAM NEWMAN.
    John William Newman, for thirteen years actively engaged in the profession
of law and numbered among the representatives of the Little Rock bar since 1910,
was born on the 4th of August, 1882, in Maryville, Nodaway county, Missouri. He
comes of southern ancestry, representing one of the old families of Virginia.
His father, James Blakey Newman, was born in the town of Orange, Orange county,
Virginia, on the 30th of May, 1852, and received liberal educational
opportunities in his native state, studying law under Prof. John B. Minor at the
University of Virginia and having prepared for the practice of law he removed
from Orange, Virginia, to Maryville, Missouri, where for twenty-five years he
continued actively in the practice of law, winning prominence as a
representative of the bar of that state. He was remarkable among lawyers for the
wide research and provident care with which he prepared his cases. Moreover, he
threw himself easily and naturally into the argument with a self-possession and
a deliberation that indicated no straining after effects, but on the contrary
showed a precision and clearness in statement and acuteness and strength in his
arguments which bespoke a mind trained in the severe school of investigation, to
which the closest reasoning had become habitual. At length he retired from the
active work of the profession and in 1906 returned to his native state, where he
is living retired, enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil.
His political endorsement is given to the democratic party. It was on the 30th
of May, 1879, in Jacksonport, Jackson county, Arkansas, that James B. Newman was
united in marriage to Miss Hattie Jones, who was born October 21, 1857, in
Jacksonport. Her father was a distinguished member of the bar, practicing law
for many years in Jacksonport and in Newport, Arkansas, as a partner of the firm
of Jones & Doswell and later of the firm of Jones & Jones, the junior member
thereof being his son Gustave Jones, now of Newport, Arkansas. To the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Newman were born four children: Lucile, who is residing
in Somerset, Virginia; John W., of Little Rnck; Mrs. Kate Scott, living at
Orange, Virginia; and Nannie, who is located at Somerset.

    Reared under the parental roof, John W. Newman largely spent his youthful
days as a public school pupil in Maryville, Missouri, but afterward attended the
Woodberry Forrest Academy at Orange, Virginia, and still later became a student
in the Virginia Military Institute, from which he was graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Science in 1904. In preparation for a professional career he
attended the law school of the University of Missouri in 1904-5 and later became
a student in the Washington and Lee University of Virginia, which conferred upon
him the LL. B. degree at the completion of his course in 1908. From 1905 until
1908 he was assistant professor of the Virginia Military Institute. In 190S he
was admitted to the bar of Virginia and has since engaged in practice, making
his home in Little Rock since 1910. Already he has made a lasting impression
upon the bar of the state, by reason of his legal ability and his personal
quality. He is constantly studying along broadening professional lines and wide
experience in the courts is bringing to him comprehensive knowledge. The patient
care with which he ascertains all the facts hearing upon every case with which
he is connected makes his position largely an incontrovertible one and his
opinions are seldom seriously questioned in court.

    On the 29th of December, 1910, Mr. Newman wedded Mattie Garland Ayres, whose
birth occurred in Lexington, Rockhridge county, Virginia, December 31, 18S4, her
parents being Dr. Brown and Kate (Anderson) Ayres. Her father was professor oŁ
physics in Tulane University and was president of the University of Tennessee
from 1904 until 1919. He remained in educational work at New Orleans, Louisiana,
until 1904 and then removed to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he continued as
president of the college to the time of his death, which occurred January 19,
1919. Mr. and Mrs. Newman have become parents of an interesting little family of
two sons and a daughter: John Ayres, born February 20, 1914; James Blakey, born
January 10, 1917; and Katherine Anderson, born July 4, 1919. Mrs. Newman
received liberal educational opportunities, attending private schools and later
becoming a member of Newcomb College at New Orleans, Louisiana, from which she
was graduated on the completion of her course with the Bachelor of Arts degree.

    Mr. Newman is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a college fraternity, and
he is likewise a blue lodge Mason, while his political allegiance is given to
the democratic party. He belongs to the Episcopal church and he loyally holds to
any cause which he espouses, giving his aid and influence to many measures which
he deems of value in the promotion of public welfare and the upholding of civic
ideals.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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