Newberry, Walter C
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1835, in Sangerfield, N. Y. He served during the war in volunteer armies of the United States as private, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general by brevet. He elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. was NEWBERRY, WALTER LOOMIS, merchant, philanthropist, was born Sept. 18, 1804, in East Windsor, Conn. He was one of the founders of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company's bank of Chicago; and president of the Galena railroad, now the great Northwestern railroad. In 1841 he was active in founding the Young Men's Library association of Chicago, and was its first president. He visited Europe in 1868, and died on his homeward voyage on Nov. 6. He left nearly two million dollars to found a library, to be named for him, and located in the north division of Chicago, which is now consummated, the famous Newberry library, one of the finest institutions in America.