Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....Newell, Fred 1862 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 31, 2008, 12:02 am Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899) FRED NEWELL. - One of the prominent representatives of the journalistic profession is the gentleman whose name heads this brief notice, the well known editor and proprietor of the Sullivan Review, of Dushore, Pennsylvania. He was born at Canton, Bradford county, this state, October 11, 1862, a son of Josiah T. and Melissa (Webster) Newell, both of New England Puritan stock, the former a native of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, the latter of the Mohawk valley, New York. The family has ever been a very patriotic and loyal one, and the father of our subject was a soldier of both the Mexican and Civil wars. He died in February, 1869, and the mother now lives with her son, at the old homestead in Canton. In the family were four children, namely; Belle, deceased wife of B. J. Rundell, of Blossburg, Pennsylvania; Charles P., who operates the old home farm at Canton; Anna, the present wife of B. J. Rundell; and Fred, of this review. The district schools of Canton township, Bradford county, afforded our subject his early educational privileges, and he later attended the Canton high school. At the age of eighteen years he entered the office of the Canton Sentinel to learn the printing business, but soon afterward went to Elmira, New York, where he worked for a time on the Daily Gazette; returning to Canton, he was again employed in the Sentinel office, and on the 1st of April, 1882, came to Dushore as foreman of the Sullivan Review, but the following October went to Towanda, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as compositor on the Daily Journal and also the Daily Review. In the summer of 1883 he returned to Dushore as foreman of the Sullivan Review, and on the 1st of September, 1887, purchased the paper which he has since successfully published, it being the only independent paper in Sullivan county. He is a prominent member of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Press Association, which was organized at his suggestion, and he was its first president. He is a non-resident charter member of the Ontario Club, of Towanda, Pennsylvania; was the first president of the Dushore Fire Company, and from 1887 until 1896 was corresponding secretary of the Sullivan County Agricultural Society. He is also a leading member of Dushore Lodge, No 494, I. O. O. F., and in 1883 and 1884 was district deputy grand master of Sullivan county. He organized at Dushore a camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of America and a camp of the Sons of Veterans, of which he has been lieutenant and captain and also aide-de-camp on the staff of the division colonel. It will thus be seen that he has taken quite an active and prominent part in public affairs, and is one of the representative and influential citizens of Dushore. He served as borough auditor from 1890 until 1893, and was school director and president of the school board from 1893 until 1896. Mr. Newell was married December 21, 1882, to Miss Sallie, daughter of Judge D. H. Fairchild, of Dushore, and they now have two children: Hattie Belle, born April 4, 1884; and Fred, Jr., born January 10, 1892. The parents both hold membership in the Lutheran church and are quite prominent socially. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania by Thomas J. Ingham Compendium of Biography The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago: 1899 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb