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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [220-223]

           JOSEPH NEWCOMB, farmer, section 34, Meade Township, is the son
        of JOSEPH and MARY (GORDON) NEWCOMB.  The former was a native of
        New Brunswick; the latter of La Prairie Co., Province of Quebec.
        They settled after marriage in Ontario, and the senior NEWCOMB en-
        listed in November, 1864, in the 15th Mich. Inf.  He died in the
        hospital at Louisville, Ky., July 15, 1865.  His widow remained in
        Canada until 1875, when she removed to Ottawa Co., Ohio, whence,
        after a residence of five years, in the fall of 1880, she came to
        Meade Township, in Huron County, to make her permanent home. She is
        the mother of ten children, namely: SARAH, SAMUEL, JOSEPH, ANNIE,
        MARY, HANNAH, GEORGE, NATHANIEL, ALBERT and ELIZABETH.
           In political adherence MR. NEWCOMB is a Republican, and is pre-
        sent School Assessor.
           He was married April 2, 1884, at Port Huron, to MAGGIE KING, who
        is a native of Canada.

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