Edwin Martin Newman – Pioneer
Farmer
Monday, May 28, 2012
In support of the 100th year anniversary of
o Elmer Bromenshenk
Billings Orson Nickerson Newman
property location
o James & Inez Driscoll S Riverside Drive Ed Newman Property location
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o Ethel Sollie Edwin’s Daughter Family Remembrances
o Mrs. Roy Newman
o William Newman Scott
o Mrs. D.Celia Willis
o William M Willis Joseph
Cochran & Ed Newman Information
o John Stricker S Broadway Street Orson Nickerson Newman property
location
o Eliz Stricker
o Rick
Halvorson
o Tom Fraser School Dist #2
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o Jim Minnie Surveyor Headed team of
specialists to locate “Josephine Tree” exact placement.
BLM records and genealogical files from the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum provide additional details and maps.
Ed Newman was born March 31, 1858 in Croton, MI, and died May 26, 1926 in
In
spring of 1878 several new families started to move
into
Standing: William Marvin, Mary Amanda, Charles
Henry, and Asa Dow
Seated: Albert Alonzo, Sarah Jane Newman
On Ground: Abe Benton (Pete), and Mark Twain Newman
Ed acquired 120 acres of land (Lots 2 & 3)
in Section 15, Tp 1 S, Rn
26 E in 1883. Date that he took pre-exemption is not available as the BLM
records were lost. He placed a fence around the property soon after arriving
according to the survey notes made by de Lacy in 1878. Arriving with Ed was
Richard W. Clarke. He later made a CASH SALE for his property on Sep 16,
1887. Richard was a dairyman and farmer.
Aaron F. Ford (called Erron) also arrived with the
Newman family in 1878, and lived in a tent on their property for a while. He
lived at
Before the Newman’s arrived, the location was
used as an Indian campground and burial site. It was their custom to place the
dead in the stump hollow of large tree trunks.
During
their tenure on the property the
When the Montana Power Plant was built in Section 2,
additional reconstruction of the river course and banks followed, with the
apparent change in location in Sections 2, 11, 14 & 15. The severe changes
in the river’s course also shows up in Sections 16, 17 and others, is
unexplained. This could be due to survey discrepancies, or actual
reconstruction. Examination of the records relating to differences has not been
researched. A Congressional Act evicted the settlers indicated as living in
Section 16 as of 1877 in 1879. See Cochran
Files for details about the true land ownership in Section 16. Lots 3, 7
& 8 are incorrectly displayed!
The original Ed Newman family home was too small to hold all of the family members, so the boys slept in a bunkhouse nearby. The original home was later incorporated into the Driscoll house after they acquired the property.
Jim Taylor, an early valley resident, built a small cabin on the northeast
corner of what later became the Ed Newman land in Section 15. It was reported
that the Indians, whom he apparently had cheated, escorted him out of the area,
leaving the cabin vacant. [The name was reported to be
The first “real” teacher was Flora Amna,
who followed Nat Givens, a farmer who volunteered his time to teach. According
to the
Between 1879 and 1910 there were a total of four different
“Newman” Schools in School District #3, north of the
[It should be noted that the Josephine location, established by W.W.
de Lacy on his survey map, represents the place where the boat tied up after
reaching the Coulson area on June 7th, 1877 [Piloted by Captain
Grant Marsh], and not the furthest point upstream location where it turned
around on June 7th 1875 [Commanded by Col. Forsythe.] That location
is at Duck Creek. See Josephine
Story in Cochran Files.]