Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Newman, Edmund Burke September 1, 1826 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 754, 755

Edmund Burke Newman, eldest child of Jonathan and Eleanor Newman, was born in 
Fentriss Township, near Centre meeting, ten miles south of Greensboro, 
Guilford Co., N.C., Sept. 1, 1826. He entered school in his sixth year, and 
the teacher of that school, S. Swim---then called master is still living in 
Guilford County. Edmund came with his parents to Milton, Wayne Co., Ind., 
where they settled about the middle of November, 1836. At this place he 
received such an education as the common schools of that day afforded, having 
spent the last two years of his school days in the seminary at Cambridge City, 
Ind., where he studied Latin, German and some of the higher branches of 
mathematics, under the preceptorship of Prof. Samuel K. Hoshour. In the summer 
of 1846 he began teaching school in Dudley Township, Henry County, Ind., at 
which place he remained two years, and continued at the business, with one or 
two short intervals for ten years. His teaching was confined to the counties 
of Henry, Wayne and Fayette, having taught one year in Now Castle, Henry 
County, and three years at Milton, in Wayne. Sept. 1, 1847, he was united in 
marriage with Mary A., only daughter of William D. and Esther Harden, pioneer 
settlers of Wayne County, though living at the time of their daughter's 
marriage in Henry County, three miles west of Dublin, in the same neighborhood 
where Newman was teaching. In politics he was originally a Whig, and cast his 
first vote for President, in 1848, for Zachariah Taylor. Upon the dissolution 
of that party he joined the Republican party, and has ever since remained an 
earnest supporter of the principles, measures and men of that party on the 
stump, through the press and at the ballot-box. During the last years of his 
school-teaching, he devoted what time he had out of the school-room to reading 
law, and in September, 1857, he was admitted to the bar in Centreville, under 
the Circuit Judgeship of John T. Elliott, afterward one of the Supreme Judges 
of the State, and notwithstanding his remote location from the county seat, 
and the large number of learned and eminent attorneys belonging to the Wayne 
County bar, he soon succeeded in gathering up a living practice. In 1860 he 
was elected without opposition one of the representatives from Wayne County to 
the Indiana Legislature, in which body he was appointed a member of the 
Committee on Federal Relations, of the Committee on the Organization of 
Courts, and also a member of the Select Committee of Thirteen, to whom was 
referred a series of important resolutions, introduced at the beginning of the 
session on the disturbed State of the Union. He served in the special session 
of the Legislature of 1861, called by Governor Morton, after the attack on 
Fort Sumter, to make preparations to aid the National Government in 
suppressing the Southern rebellion and preserving the Union. He was re-elected 
to the same position in 1862, and served through the memorable and stormy 
session of 1863, and aided by the only available peaceable means that could be 
adopted to defeat the bill being pushed for its passage, taking the military 
power out of the hands of the Governor and placing it with a Military Board, a 
majority of whom were opposed to the further prosecution of the war. After the 
close of the war Mr. Newman was appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal 
Revenue, which position he held for six years, having for his district the 
counties of Henry, Wayne, Fayette and Union. Since the year 1873 he has been 
connected with the office of Township Assessor in Washington Township, and is 
still employed in that business. He has had born to him five children---the 
eldest Lawrence W., died when near three years old; the other four, Florence 
A., Rutledge H., Homer E. and Virgil G., are all over twenty-one years of age, 
and live in Wayne County, Homer being the only one married.

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