An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 441

	DR. DEWITT C. NEWMAN, Spokane, Washington, was born in Logan county, Ohio,
in 1857, being the eldest of the six children of Aaron M. and Margaretta
(Miller) Newman, natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively. His
grandfather, Abner Newman, was a pioneer Methodist preacher and was of English
descent, the Newmans having come from England to America previous to the
Revolution and settled in New York. Grandfather and grandmother Miller were of
Irish and German ancestry respectively, and were natives of Pennsylvania. When
Aaron M. Newman was three years of age his parents moved to the Northwest
Territory, this being before Ohio was formed into a State. There he grew up to
manhood and engaged in school teaching and fanning. He died in 1876 and his wife
in 1891.
	The subject of our sketch received a high school education at Quincy, Ohio,
and in 1879 began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. B.M. Sharp
at Sidney, Ohio. The following year he entered the Starling Medical College, at
Columbus, at which institution he graduated in 1882. He then came West, entering
the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, and graduated with the class of 1883,
after which he at once began the practice of his profession in that city. A year
later he went to Australia and located at Cobar, New South Wales, soon afterward
being appointed Government Medical Officer for the district and Surgeon to the
Cobar Hospital and Cobar Copper Mining Company. These positions he filled for
three years, and during that time also conducted a large private practice.
	Upon his return to America, Dr. Newman took a post-graduate course in the
New York Polyclinic. He then went to Paris and was engaged in hospital practice
there, thus availing himself of every means to enlarge his knowledge of the
various diseases and perfect himself in his profession. He returned from Europe
in December, 1888, and in January, 1889, located at Davenport, this State. Soon
afterward he came to Spokane, where he has since been conducting a general
practice. His professional career has been one of marked success. He has been
Secretary of the Washington Medical Society of Spokane county since its
organization, and is also a member of the American Medical Association and of
the Medical Society of Southern California.
	In political matters the Doctor is Democratic, being an active worker in the
ranks of his party. He owns property in Spokane, and is thoroughly identified
with the best interests of the place. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and of the
Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are both members of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church.
	In 1889 Dr. Newman was married to Miss Mary V. Nickey of Muncie, Indiana.
They have one daughter, Marguerite.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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