"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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ROBERT BARCLAY NEWBY was born at Salem, Washington County, Ind., July 21,
1827, and lived there, following farming as an occupation, until eighteen
years of age. He is the eldest son and third child of five boys and three
girls born to MICAH and MARY (COFFIN) NEWBY, natives of North Carolina and
of English descent. Robert B. was schooled at the Washington County
Seminary, and in the year 1845, came to Mooresville, where he has since
resided. His first service here was with S. MOORE, as clerk in a mercantile
establishment, going into a partnership with him at the end of five years.
After being with him three years Mr. Newby retired from the mercantile
business, but continued a partnership with Mr. Moore in farming and stock
business for several years. June 16, 1859, he married his partner's
daughter, JANE M., who died in August, 1853, after having borne him two
children--SAMUEL M. and FRANK W. (deceased). Mr. Newby married his second
wife, MARY RARIDEN, in Morgan County in April, 1870. Since 1870, he has
been farming and stock trading. In 1879, he was elected Marshal of
Mooresville, and held the office one year, and since 1882, has been Justice
of the Peace of Brown Township, and in addition to the duties of that
office, is carrying on a general collecting agency. He is a member of the
Masonic order, and in politics an active Republican.
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