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Newbegin, Henry

lawyer, born May 2, 1833, in Pownel, Maine. In 1857 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and since 1886 has been overseer of that institution. For twelve years he was general counsel of the Chicago division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; has been local counsel for the Wabash railroad since 1870; and since 1882 has had considerable practice in the supreme court of the United States. He has a large practice in Defiance, Ohio; and takes an active part in republican politics.

NEWBERRY, JOHN STOUGHTON, manufacturer, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1826, in Waterville, N. Y.

In 1864 he engaged largely in manufacturing enterprises in Detroit, Mich. He was elected as a representative from Michigan to the forty-sixth congress as a republican. He died Jan. 2, 1887, in Detroit, Mich.

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