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

J.W. NEWBURNE, farmer and gardener; was born in Glassboro, 
N.J., June 10, 1846; only surviving child of a family of 
nine, born to John and Lydia (Simmerman) Newburne, natives 
of New Jersey.  John Newburne, subject's father, was born 
in 1816, and engaged in the manufacture of glass, and also 
in farming, and at present resides in Glassboro, N.J., 
retired from active life; his wife was born in 1820.  J. W. 
resided in his native town till he was twelve years of age, 
when he removed to Clayton, N.J., then called Fislertown, 
where he attended school until he was twenty-two years of 
age.  In 1868 he married Rebecca, daughter of John and 
Martha Fleming, of Paulsboro, N.J., and in 1869 settled 
near Beardstown, this county, where, seven years after, 
Mrs. Newburne died, leaving two children-twins.  In 1875 he 
returned to New Jersey, where he married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Zane, of Glassboro, 
N.J., and returned to this county the same year.  He makes 
a specialty of raising melons and sweet potatoes, and has 
met with good success.  He shipped the first forty barrels 
of sweet potatoes by boat to Chicago, and afterward the 
first car-load shipped from this county to that city.  He 
has one child living, Harry Walter, the other, Emily 
Luella, having died when one year old.  Mrs. Newburn's 
father was born in Philadelphia, Penn, in 1812, and for 
many years followed the trade of glass-blowing, but of late 
years has engaged in farming.

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