SIDNEY CARLETON NEWSOM
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 649

Professor Sidney Carleton Newsom, one of the best known 
educators in Arizona, now connected with educational 
interests of Tucson as city superintendent of schools, 
was born in Cherokee, Colbert County, Alabama, October 
26, 1863, and is a son of Charles Edward and Mary Towns 
(Ligon) Newsom.  His father was a graduate of the University 
of South Carolina and was also a college professor, being 
connected with the Masonic College at Macon Tennessee.  
The son acquired an excellent education as a preparation 
for his important life work, for after completing the usual 
course in the public schools of Macon, Tennessee, he 
attended the Indiana State Normal School.  He received 
his A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1895 and was 
graduated from the University of Chicago with the degree 
of A.M. in 1898.  He began his independent career as 
superintendent of schools at Marion, Illinois and later 
became principal of the Houston Texas high school.  From 
there he went to Indianapolis Indiana where for five years 
he did able work in a similar position. He spent three 
years in the Philippine Islands as Division Superintendent 
of schools and in this way he broadened his knowledge and 
came in contact with other standards and methods.


Professor Newsom came to Arizona in 1904 and spent four years 
as head of the English Department in the State University, 
after which he accepted the position of city superintendent 
of the Tucson schools.  During his residence in the 
Philippines he devoted a great deal of his time to writing 
and is the author of a series of textbooks, nine in number. 
He has also compiled three editions of the English classics 
for the Macmillan Publishing Company.

Professor Newsom was married in 1898 to Miss Levona Hamlin 
Payne, a native of Franklin, Indiana who is well known in 
social circles of Tucson and has served as president of the 
Woman's Club.

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