Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Newcomer, James W 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 January 31, 2008, 1:02 am

Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

James W. Newcomer, of the firm of Newcomer & Bayliss, publishers of the 
Sterling Standard, was born in Centre Co., Pa., Nov. 23, 1841; came to 
Illinois in 1846 with his parents, and settled near Freeport; learned the 
printer's trade in the Freeport Journal office; enlisted in Co. D, 93d Ill. 
Vol. Inf., in 1862, and served three years; was wounded at Altoona Pass in 
October, 1864; was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in 1865. He published the Lena 
Star from 1869 to 1878; was United States Storekeeper at Sterling from 1878 to 
1883. Subsequently he entered the firm of Mack & Newcomer, which in June, 
1884, became Newcomer & Bayliss, publishers of the Standard, a straight 
Republican newspaper. Mr. Newcomer was married in 1870 to Miss Lola, daughter 
of Z. Stover, then of Lena, now of Republic, Kan. They have one daughter, 
Lulu, born Jan. 10, 1872.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/whiteside/bios/newcomer2099nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 1.7 Kb