Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Newman, W. V. 1854 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

W. V. NEWMAN

    The possibilities of the new world were as yet a matter of uncertainty and
conjecture when the Newman family crossed the ocean to identify their fortunes
with those of the fair land of hope. The ancient commonwealth of Virginia was
their first place of sojourn, and several generations remained in that part of
the country, bearing their quota in state and national advancement. It was not
until about the middle of the nineteenth century that the first representatives
of the family established the name in the Mississippi valley and took up
government land in that rich Illinois region tributary to McLean county. In the
city of Bloomington, Ill., Mr. Newman was born in 1854, and there he passed the
first seven years of life. Meanwhile the settlement of Kansas was arousing great
interest, both by reason of the rich soil of the Sunflower state and because of
the excitement incident to the Civil war or the preliminary struggle associated
with that part of the west.

    The settlement of the family in Kansas was followed shortly thereafter by
the pre-emption of a quarter section of government land in Greenwood county,
some distance south of the city of Emporia. At the age of twenty-one years he
started out to earn his own livelihood. For a long period he rented a farm of
two hundred and fifty acres, where he engaged in raising corn, cattle and hogs.

    Coming to California during 1901 Mr. Newman settled in the vicinity of
Winters, Yolo county, and engaged in the raising of fruit on a farm of sixty
acres. For three years he labored with untiring industry to secure the most
satisfactory results possible from the tract, of which seven acres were in
almond trees, three acres in pears, and the balance largely in apricots and
peaches. At the expiration of three years he gave up horticulture for ranching
and settled near Knight's Landing, where he operated sixty acres as an alfalfa
ranch and dairy farm. To a small extent he raised corn and engaged in the hog
business. November 1, 1910, he rented a farm near Woodland, on the Yolo road,
and there he managed eighty acres of fine land, forty acres in alfalfa and a
like amount in grain. In the fall of 1911 he located in Woodland, near the high
school, where he conducts a dairy, supplied by a herd of twenty milch cows.
Assisting him in the care of the dairy business is his wife, a woman of
capability and thrift, possessing the economical traits characteristic of the
people of her native land, Germany. October 18, 1885, in Kansas, Miss Sarah
Ulridge became the wife of Mr. Newman, and since then she has been his efficient
co-worker in all labors. They are the parents of eight children, namely: Henry,
who assists his father in the care of the ranch; Martha, who married Jesse
Wiseman and resides in Sacramento; Bessie, Edgar, Jessie, Frank, Harvey
(deceased) and Grace.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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