Bartholomew County IN Archives Biographies.....Newsom, Joel S. 1841 - before 1904
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

p. 209 – 210

JOEL S. NEWSOM.

   The Newsom family is a prominent one in Bartholomew county. Its members have
been active business men and progressive citizens and it is to this class that
the county owes its substantial upbuilding, its progress and permanent
improvement. Joel S. Newsom was born on the old home farm in Sand Creek
township, February 9, 1841. His parents were Jose and Mary (Stout) Newsom and
the former is a son of Joel Newsom, a native of North Carolina. Under the
parental roof the subject of this review was reared, spending his boyhood and
youth in the usual manner of lads of the period. Undoubtedly he enjoyed the
pleasures of the playground more than the duties of the fields, yet he performed
his full share in the work of cultivating and improving his father's farm,
becoming more and more familiar with the work as his age and strength increased.
He attended the district schools in early boyhood and afterward was a student in
Earlham College at Richmond, for one year. He then engaged in teaching in
Elizabethtown for one winter.

   September 15, 1869, Joel S. Newsom was united in marriage to Miss Edith M.
Armstrong, with whom he traveled life's journey for twelve years, when, in 1881,
she was called to her final rest. There were three sons born to this union:
Everett H., a graduate of Earlham College, is employed as a clerk in New York
city; Curtis, who is also a graduate of Earlham College, is married and is
teaching in Illinois: Ralph E. died in infancy. On the 18th of May, 1883, Mr.
Newsom was again married, his second union being with Miss Belinda Mills, a
daughter of Abner and Hannah (Furnas) Mills. From Ohio the Mills family came to
Indiana, a young married couple, and prior to that time the ancestors lived in
the south. Mr. Mills was born in Ohio and accompanied his parents to this state,
the family settling first near Indianapolis, being reared upon the farm there.
He obtained a common-school education and after putting aside his text books he
learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for many years. His widow
survived him about seventeen years, dying December 10, 1903. Unto this worthy
couple were born five children, four of whom are yet living: Dr. Seth Mills, who
is a physician in Valley Mills, Indiana; Professor J. J. Mills, who is the
ex-president of Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana; Thornton A., a prominent
farmer of Valley Mills, who formerly served as postmaster there and was also
trustee, and Mrs. Newsom. The last named, like the other members of the family,
reecived [sic] good educational privileges, which she improved. She was a
successful teacher in both Marion and Bartholomew counties. By her marriage she
has become the mother of four interesting children, Clarence W., Floyd A., Belva
H. and Clara M.

   Throughout his business career Mr. Newsom has carried on general farming and
stock raising. He is now engaged in the breeding of thoroughbred shorthorn
cattle and Poland China hogs.

   His political support is given to the Republican party, of which he is a
stalwart advocate. He belongs to the Friends church, in which his wife is an
overseer, and the cause of Christianity receives their earnest endorsement and
hearty co-operation. Mr. Newsom has long been recognized as one of the leading
citizens of the county, in which he was born and in which his entire life has
been passed.


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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER

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