Throughout almost his entire life Mortimer J. Newman has been connected with the cap trade, either as representative of wholesale or retail lines or as manufacturer. He is now the president and treasurer of the Mortimer J. Newman Company, Incorporated, extensively engaged in cap manufacture in New Haven. He was born in New York city, June 20, 1876. His father, Moses Newman, now deceased, was a native of Newark, New Jersey, and was of German descent. He followed mercantile lines throughout his active business career and was quite successful. He married Sarah Plonsky, a native of New York city and of German and Polish lineage. She departed this life in 1911 and of her six children two are yet living, Mortimer J. and Arthur Newman, the latter a traveling salesman residing in New York.
     Mortimer J. Newman was educated in the schools of Denver, Colorado, for in 1882, when he was about six years of age, his family removed to that western city. When he was a youth of fifteen he started out to make his own way in the world and has since been dependent entirely upon his own resources. He is indeed a self-made man and his record is thoroughly creditable. He was first employed by the well known May Company of Denver. prominent clothiers of that city, with whom he continued for five years, his long connection with the house indicating most clearly his capability and fidelity. During the greater part of that period he was in the cap department and thus received the initial experience which has led him step by step to his present manufacturing interests. On leaving the May Company he took charge of a store called the Golden Rule at Breckenridge, Colorado, for Joseph Oppenheimer, there remaining for three years. He then returned to the east, making his way to New York city, where he accepted the position of traveling salesman for Ezekiel Plonsky, manufacturer of neckwear. He traveled for that house in the New England states for three years and then entered into partnership with the firm of Frankenberger & Sons of New Haven, cap manufacturers. This was in 1906 and since that year he has been actively and continuously engaged in cap manufacturing. He is now the president and treasurer of the Mortimer J. Newman Company. Incorporated, which is engaged exclusively in the manufacture of golf caps, its output being sixty dozen per day, in which connection forty people are employed. The factory is well equipped and the business is continually growing, having already become one of the profitable productive industries of New Haven.
     On the 29th of August, 1906, Mr. Newman was united in marriage to Miss Emma Sugenheimer, a native of New Haven and a daughter of Jacob and Eva Sugenheimer, the former now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Newman have one child, Lee, born January 29, 1912, in New Haven.
     Mr. and Mrs. Newman are members of Mishkan Israel synagogue of New Haven and Mr. Newman is well known in club circles as a member of the Harmonic Club and the New Haven Automobile Club. He also belongs to B'nai B'rith and is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is also an active and helpful member of the Chamber of Commerce, being in hearty sympathy with its plans and measures to promote the welfare of his city. His political endorsement is given to the republican party. He has been a very successful man and his prosperity is evidenced in his attractive home at No. 94 Linden street, which he erected, and by his factory and office at 119 Meadow street. He certainly deserves much credit for the progress that he has made. He has allowed no obstacles or difficulties to bar his path if they could be overcome by persistent, earnest and honorable effort and step by step he has progressed until his posi-tion in business circles is an enviable one.