BIO:  NEWMAN, John P., Campbell Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: NEWMAN, John P., Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Campbell Co.

JOHN P. NEWMAN was born in Upton, Mass., in 1851, and is the only child
of John and Catherine (Charde) Newman.  John Newman, a school teacher,
and a son of Samuel Newman, of County Cork, Ireland, was born in 1820.
He was lieutenant of the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment in the late war,
and, having retired from business, now lives in Boston, Mass.  He is an
Episcopalian.  Mrs. Catherine Newman, a daughter of Samuel Charde, of
Lawrence, Mass., was born in 1829, and died in 1852.  She was of Irish
nationality, and a member of the Episcopal Church.  John P. Newman was
educated at Newtonville Academy, Massachusetts, and graduated at
Cincinnati Law School in 1877, having moved to Campbell County in 1875.
After graduating he located at Newport.  He has been mayor of Bellevue
and a member of the Legislature.  He was tendered the nomination for
attorney-general by the Union Labor party, but declined.  He is a Knight
of Honor and a Knight of Pythias.  In 1877 he married Miss Houser,
daughter of Mathias Houser, an old pioneer of Cincinnati.  Two children
have blessed this union:  Oliver and Stella.  Politically R. Newman is
a Democrat.

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