Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

NELSON A. NEWMAN, grocer, Ashland; was born near Meredosia,
Morgan Co., Ill., July 30, 1848.  In addition to the common
schools, he attended for a short time the Illinois College at
Jacksonville, and Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana.  In
1871 he began dealing in stock in St. Louis; is now engaged in
keeping a first-class grocery.  He was married at St. Louis, June
23, 1880, to Miss Louisa J. Rogerson, who has borne one child,
Mildred, born May 15, 1881.  Mrs. Newman is a daughter of Thomas
Rogerson, a native of England, now living at St. Louis.  Jesse T.
Newman, the father of Nelson, was born in Marietta, Ohio, in
1824; followed different occupations, but principally
merchandising.  His death occurred July 7, 1881.  His wife,
Esther Jane Gillham, was born in Scott County, Ill.; she is the
mother of nine children, of whom Nelson was the oldest. 
Politically he is identified with the Republican party; his wife
is connected with the Presbyterian Church.  The father of our
subject served as Lieutenant Colonel in the One Hundred and First
Ill. Vol. Inft., organized at Jacksonville.

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