Montour-Dauphin County PA Archives Biographies.....NEWBAKER, P. C. 1843 - living in 1899
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  HON. P. C. NEWBAKER, one of the oldest and most prominent physicians and
  surgeons of Montour County, Pa., whose portrait we take pleasure in presenting
  on the foregoing page, is a resident of Danville, and is held in high esteem by
  the citizens of that place. He was born near the village of Halifax, Dauphin
  County, Pa., August 13, 1843, and is a son of Dr. John B. and Caroline Elizabeth
  (Maize) Newbaker, and a grandson of Philip Newbaker. The great-great-grandfather
  of our subject was Martin Newbaker who emigrated from Germany to America prior
  to the Revolutionary War. The family name was originally spelled Neubecker. His
  son Philip, our subject's great-grandfather, was a lieutenant in a Colonial
  regiment and after Independence was won settled at the mouth of Powell's Creek,
  Dauphin County, Pa., on the banks of the Susquehanna River and there carried on
  agricultural pursuits the remainder of his active days. His son, Philip second,
  our subject's grandfather, then became the owner of the property and lived there
  until the time of his death in 1865. Inglenook Station on the Northern Central
  R. R. is located upon the farm, and Inglenook Club House, where the business men
  of Harrisburg spend many of their leisure hours fishing and otherwise enjoying
  themselves, is built upon the river bank near the old homestead. Our subject's
  father, Dr. John B, Newbaker, was born and reared upon his father's farm and
  received a good education in the district schools after which he studied
  medicine and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the
  class of 1852, subsequently removed to Northumberland County, Pa., and at
  present resides at Trevorton, in the same county, where he still successfully
  practices his profession. He was asst.-surgeon in the 56th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf.,
  in the Civil War and represented the Northumberland-Montour District in the H.
  R. Pa., in 1872.
  
    Our subject acquired a good academic education in the West Branch High School
  at Jersey Shore, Pa., and at Missionary Institute at Selinsgrove, Pa.; after
  teaching several months he entered the office of his father and commenced the
  study of medicine. On April 23, 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, he
  enlisted in Company F, 11th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., first three months' call, was
  in one of the first engagements of the war at Hokes Run, W. Va., and was
  discharged at Harrisburg, Pa., July 31, 1865, by reason of expiration of term of
  service. On August 12, 1862, he re-enlisted in Company K, 15th Reg., Pa. Vol.
  Cav., at Philadelphia for a term of three years and his regiment was assigned to
  duty under General Rosecrans, where he saw hard service and was in a number of
  engagements in the Army of the Cumberland. On account of continued sickness and
  debility, induced by exposure in active service in the campaign in Kentucky and
  Tennessee, during the winter and spring of 1863, he was transferred to Company
  D, 2d Reg., Veteran Reserve Corps, in which he continued to serve as clerk of
  his company until the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge
  July 5, 1865. Returning home he again took up the study of medicine under his
  father's direction, and later entered Jefferson Medical College from which he
  graduated March 12, 1869. Shortly afterward he located in Washingtonville,
  Montour County (Feb. 6, 1870), where he soon built up a large and lucrative
  practice. He continued his practice in that village sixteen years, when he
  removed to Danville, in 1886, where he has since followed the practice of his
  profession, being already well and favorably known throughout the county. He has
  been remarkably successful in his profession.
  
    Hon. P. C. Newbaker is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party and in 1878
  was nominated and elected to represent Montour County in the State Legislature;
  in 1880 he was again honored with a seat in that body, which shows his
  popularity throughout the county. At the general election, held November 8,
  1898, Dr. Newbaker was elected treasurer of Montour County for a term of three
  years, commencing January 1, 1899. He is president of the Danville School Board,
  having held that office since June, 1897; is a member of the State and County
  Medical Societies; a member of Goodrich Post, No. 22, G. A. R.; Union Veteran
  Legion; Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. & A. M., of which he is past master; and has
  been secretary of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons at Danville,
  Pa., since 1886. He purchased a residence at No. 105 West Mahoning street in
  1886, to which he has made many improvements and has added an office. He was
  united in the bonds of matrimony with Amelia A. Koons, a daughter of Benjamin
  Koons of Weissport, Pa., and their union has been blessed by five children:
  Winifred M., a graduate of the Pittsburg Musical Conservatory, who afterward
  completed her musical education at New York, and at Berlin, Germany, and is one
  of the most talented musicians in Central Pennsylvania; Charles A., a graduate
  of Lehigh University, is an electrical engineer; Bertha, a graduate of the
  Danville High School; Edward J., who attended West Point and Lehigh University,
  is now a mining engineer; and Francis W., at present a student in the Danville
  High School.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
  
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