Individual Details

Charles Newcomer carried the title of "Major" in the Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County.

In 1849 he joined a ox train to the gold fields of California. Others with family ties on the journey were George and Michael Swingley, Samuel Cheney (Chaney) and Levi Rowland. They traded their oxen for horses and mules in Green River, Utah.

In 1850 Charles Newcomer and George Swingley returned to Mount Morris, Illinois via the Panama Ismus and New York. He took up farming. In 1853 he was appointed a deputy sheriff by Elias Baker. Upon Baker's death in 1855, Charles Newcomer became Sheriff. He was a Republican. He served at the Constitutional Convention of 1861. He was appointed paymaster for the Cumberland Army under the command of General Sherman. He served until the end of the war.

In 1857, Dr. Isaac Rice and he opened the Bank of Mount Morris. He continued to farm and bank until he sold the farm in 1875. Charles Newcomer was among the founders of the Rock River Seminary in Mount Morris.

Birth	22 Aug 1825	Beaver Creek, Washington, MD
Marriage	13 Jul 1853	, Whiteside, IL - Rosalie D. Blanchard
Marriage	2 Jun 1889	Mount Morris, Ogle, IL - Maria Hitt
Death	11 Aug 1907	Mount Morris, Ogle, IL
Burial		Oakwood Cemetery, Mount Morris, Ogle, IL

Spouse	Rosalie D. Blanchard (1828 - 1872)
Child	Franklin Friedley Newcomer (1855 - 1904)
Child	Charles Edwin Newcomer Junior (1857 - 1914)
Child	Lyle Caleb Newcomer Senior (1859 - 1942)

Spouse

Maria Hitt (1848 - 1935)

Father	Samuel Newcomer Junior (1799 - 1849)
Mother	Sarah Ann Friedley (1801 - 1882)
Sibling	Edwin Newcomer (1827 - 1839)
Sibling	James Newcomer (1831 - 1857)
Sibling	Benjamin Newcomer (1832 - 1850)
Sibling	Ellen Elizabeth Newcomer (1837 - 1916)
Sibling	Albert N. Newcomer (1844 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Newcomer (1838 - )
Sibling	Margaret S. "Maggie" Newcomer (1841 - )
Sibling	Catharine Elizabeth Newcomer (1841 - 1842)
Sibling	Samuel H. Newcomer III (1842 - 1886)

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