Joseph Newman
1868/70 – 1900
Timeline
1868/70 – Birth
LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
He was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to Amelia Newman and Nathan Newman on December 18 in either 1868 or 1870. He had six siblings: Ferdinand Newman, Ida Newman Grauer, Hannah Newman, Nettie Newman, Josephine Newman Loeb, and Ellen Newman.
1900 – Death
MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
He died at the home of the Dreyfus family in Milton, Pennsylvania, from typhoid fever on February 28, 1900.
Family Tree
Parents
◦ Amelia Loeb Newman (1835-1912)*
◦ Nathan Newman (unknown-1870)*
Siblings
◦ Hannah Newman
◦ Ellen “Ellie” Newman (1860-1874)*
◦ Ida Newman Grauer
◦ Ferdinand Newman
◦ Josephine Newman Loeb
◦ Nettie Newman (1871-1916)
* = Buried in the Rodef Shalom Cemetery (click the name to view their biography)
Residences
1870 Census
LOCK HAVEN WARD 1, CLINTON, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Lived with Nathan Newman (father, 48), Mary Newman (mother, 36), Hannah Newman (sister, 12), Ellen Newman (sister, 10), Ida Newman (sister, 8), Frederick Newman (brother, 6), Josephine Newman (4, sister), Isaac Loeb (72), and Anthony Shay (23).
1880 Census
DWELLING NUMBER 18, BELLEFONTE, CENTRE, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Lived with Simon Loeb (uncle, 36), Lenora Loeb (aunt, 30), Amelia Newman (mother, 45), Hannah Newman (sister, 19), Ida Newman (sister, 17), Ferdinand Newman (brother, 15), Josephine Newman (sister, 13), and Nettie Newman (sister, 9).
Profile
Click here to view a PDF version of Joseph Newman’s biography.
According to his headstone, Joseph Newman was born on December 18, 1870. According to his death announcement in the Democratic Watchman, however, he was born on December 18, 1868. Nevertheless, he was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to Amelia Loeb Newman (click here to view her biography) and Nathan Newman (click here to view his biography). He had six siblings: Ferdinand Newman of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Ida Newman Grauer, Hannah Newman, and Nettie Newman of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Josephine Newman Loeb of Baltimore, Maryland, and Ellen “Ellie” Newman (click here to view her biography), who preceded him in death.
If Joseph was born in December of 1870, like his headstone states, his younger sister, Nettie, would not have been the biological child of their father, Nathan Newman, because their mother, Amelia, would have been pregnant with Joseph, not Nettie, at the time of Nathan’s death. If Joseph was born in 1868, like his death announcement states, however, he would have been born prior to his father’s death and his mother would have been pregnant with Nettie at the time of Nathan’s death. Joseph was more than likely born in 1868, rather than 1870, because Joseph is listed as one year old in the 1870 census. If he was born in December of 1870, like his headstone states, he would not have been listed in the 1870 census at all. His headstone also looks new, indicating it could be a replacement. The original headstone might have been illegible, and his year of birth might have been recorded wrong on the replacement headstone.
According to the 1870 census, Joseph lived with his parents, his five siblings, his maternal grandfather, Isaac Loeb (click here to view his biography), and Anthony Shay, who had an unknown relationship to the family, in Lock Haven. Both his father and grandfather worked as butchers. According to Joseph’s obituary in the Democratic Watchman, Joseph was a child when his family moved from Lock Haven to Bellefonte, sometime in the 1870s. His father, however, more than likely did not move with the family since he died when Joseph was very young. According to the 1880 census, Joseph, his mother, and his siblings lived with his aunt and uncle, Simon Loeb and Lenora Loeb, in Bellefonte. In September of 1899, Joseph left Bellefonte to work for the Dreyfus clothing store in Milton, Pennsylvania, and lived with the Dreyfus family.
According to his obituary in the Democratic Watchman, Joseph died on February 28, 1900, at the Dreyfus family home in Milton, Pennsylvania, after being ill from typhoid fever for several weeks.
He was buried in the Rodef Shalom Cemetery in Bellefonte and the funeral services were conducted at the home of his mother by Rabbi Klein of Altoona. He was remembered as being “…esteem[e]d for his quiet, unobtrusive habits and genteel demeanor.”