Husband Dr. George W. Newcomer 1 2 3
Born: 27 May 1845 - Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 3 4 5
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Father: Jacob Newcomer (1809-1871) 3 5 6
Mother: Elizabeth "Betsey" Hershey (1812-1902) 4 5 7
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. George W. Newcomer
He was brought up on the farm till about thirteen years of age, working in summers after he became old enough to work, and attending school in the winter seasons, and devouring at home what books he could get to read. When he arrived at thirteen years of age he was placed as a clerk in the store of his uncles, John and Joseph Newcomer, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, where he remained till seventeen years of age, attending school winters. He then entered Pleasant Valley Academy, Washington County, where he passed two years, taking a partial course of classical studies.
At nineteen years of age he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. John R. Nickel, of Connellsville, one of the most eminent physicians of the region, and at one time Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Physio-Medical College (later Institute) of Cincinnati. He continued with Dr. Nickel during the usual period of medical office study, and in due time took the regular course of medical lectures at the Physio-Medical Institute of Cincinnati, from which institution he received his diploma, graduating Feb. 7, 1867. He then returned to Connellsville and opened an office for the practice of medicine, which he there pursued for about five years, and then, upon the call of friends, he removed to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to take the practice of Dr. James Loar, who was about to remove farther West. Dr. Newcomer remained in practice at Mount Vernon till the spring of 1874, when, at the urgent request of his old preceptor, Dr. Nickel (who in a few weeks thereafter died), he returned to Connellsville, where he then remained.
Aside from the practice of medicine, the doctor engaged more or less in real estate speculations with excellent results.
Dr. Newcomer was, in politics, an ardent Republican, and though he did not claim to have done his country great service during the war of the Rebellion, he did study Republicanism in the field for about three months in war times, being then a member of Company B of the Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a three months' regiment, organized about the time of the battle of Gettysburg, but in which battle it did not participate, the company at that time being mustered in at Pittsburgh and awaiting equipments. But shortly afterwards it was sent with other companies to attempt the capture of the "Morgan raiders" in Ohio, and succeeded in cutting off Morgan at Salinesville, in that state,-a good lesson in politics, the doctor thought. [HFC 1882, 417]