John S. Newby

    John S. Newby, attorney at law, of the firm of Adams & Newby, is a native of this county, of which he is also a citizen, and was born December 20, 1848. After attending the general schools of the county, the Mooresville High school and the State University at Bloomington, Indiana, in which he took a four years course and from which he graduated in the literary department as B. S. in 1873, and in the law department in 1874, in the autumn of which year he located in Martinsville for the practice of his profession, and in 1877 he made a partnership with Mr. Adams.

    January 21, 1880, he married in Martinsville Miss Mary Miller. Mr. Newby is a Republican, and takes deep interest in the success of that party. He is a member of the Masonic, also of the Phi Gamma Delta, college fraternity, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has a farm of 120 acres in Section 28, Washington Township, one-half mile north of Martinsville, and likewise a pleasant residence in the town.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.