Source: PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF WHITESIDE COUNTY, IL
Originally published 1885
Chapman Bros.
Chicago, IL
Reproduced on CD
Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin
Tampico Area Historical Society
www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com
Page(s): 290
James W. Newcomer, of the firm of Newcomer & Bayliss, publishers of the Sterling Standard, was born in Centre Co., Pa., Nov. 23, 1841; came to Illinois in 1846 with his parents, and settled near Freeport; learned the printer’s trade in the Freeport Journal office; enlisted in Co. D, 93rd Ill. Vol. Inf., in 1862, and served three years; was wounded at Altoona Pass in October, 1864; was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in 1865.
He published the Lena Star from 1869 to 1878; was United States Storekeeper at Sterling from 1878; was United States Storekeeper at Sterling from 1878 to 1883. Subsequently he entered the firm of Mack & Newcomber, which in June, 1884, became Newcomer & Bayliss, publishers of the Standard, a straight Republican newspaper.
Mr. Newcomer was married in 1870 to Miss Lola, daughter of Z. Stover, then of Lena, now of Republic, Kan. They have one daughter, Lulu, born Jan. 10, 1872.
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