Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Newman, Horace S. March 16, 1848 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Newman, Horace S., Russia, was born in Russa March 16, 1848, a son of 
Sylvester B., who was a son of Ebenezer Newman.  The latter was born in Salem, 
Westchester county, in 1780.  February 7, 1805, he married Lydia Taylor, a 
native of Reading, Conn., born December 4, 1785, by whom he had seven sons and 
five daughters.  Mr. Newman was a farmer.  About 1807 he came to Russia, 
settled on the royal grant and there lived and died January 9, 1865.  He was 
drafted in the war of 1812.  He and his wife were Baptists.  She died February 
11, 1865.  Sylvester Newman was born December 22, 1817, in Russia.  He married 
October 7, 1838, Sallie A. Pettingill, a native of Brookfield, Oneida county, 
by whom he had two sons and one daughter, Emma J., Morris and Horace.  Mrs. 
Newman died April 6, 1864, and Mr.Newman married second Sarah C. Crittenden, a 
native of Massachusetts.  She died November 12, 1872.  Mr. Newman is a farmer 
and a Republican.  He is a member of Northern Light Lodge, No. 464, of 
Poland.  Horace S. was educated in the common schools.  March 13, 1873, he 
married Emma J., a daughter of Henry L. and Sarah C. Crittenden, of Conway, 
Mass., who came to Herkimer county about 1854.  Mr. Crittenden enlisted in the 
121st New York Infantry and was killed at Chancellorsville in 1863.  They had 
three daughters and one son.  The subject and wife have three children, Edgar 
H., Fred S. and Lulu S.  He has been a farmer and a butcher, but at present is 
engaged in farming exclusively.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W. of Poland, 
No. 183, and is a Republican.  Morris Newman enlisted in the First Berdan's 
Sharp Shooters, Company B.  He died December 25, 1863.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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