Contra Costa-Calaveras-San Joaquin County CA Archives Biographies.....Newman, William 1829 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM NEWMAN.—This old pioneer of California was born in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, November 5, 1808, and in that city learned the painter's trade.
When twenty-one years of age he moved to Lowell, the same State, there followed
his trade and resided until his coming to the Pacific Coast, which event
occurred in August, 1851, arriving by steamer via the Nicaragua route. On
landing in this State, Mr. Newman, after spending a short time in San Francisco,
proceeded to Stockton, and thence to the mines at Angel's Camp, where he
remained but a little while, when he again returned to Stockton, where he found
employment at his trade. His wife being sick, September, 1853, he started via
Panama to visit his old home at the East, where, in a short time after his
arrival, his wife died, when he again returned to this coast, bringing with him
his only son, and located in San Francisco. In March, 1859, Mr. Newman came to
this county, and purchased his present property of one hundred and sixty acres,
adjoining the town limits of Antioch. Mr. Newman was united in marriage in
Lowell, in 1835, to Miss Emily Morrison; by this union they had one son, now
residing with the subject of our sketch.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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