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Newberry, Truman Handy

Born
11/5/1864
Birthplace
Detroit, Michigan
Titles and Honors
Purchasing Agent & Director - Detroit, Bay City & Alpena RR
1859 - Elected Detroit Estimator
President and Treasurer of Detroit Steel and Spring Co., 1887
President of Detroit File Works
Commissioned as lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1898
Appointed Secretary of Navy in the Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908-9
Member of the U.S. Senate, 1919-22
Director of Grace Hospital, People State and Packard Motor Co.
Education
Yale Univeristy -grad 1885
Notes
1888-1893 Lived ob 3rd floor of Mrs. Jphn S. Newberry Sr.
1893 Moved next door to Mrs Newberry
1894 Moved from Detroit to Grosse Pointe Farms
1922 Ousted from U.S. Senate for fraud re over-expenditure for election

59.54.6 - Campaign cards - Xed 10/70
Occupation
One of the organizers of the Michigan State Navy Brigade, served as lieutenant and navigator, 1897-98
Served on U.S.S. Yosemite during the Spanish-American War 1898
Construction Dept.- Detroit , Bay City & Alpena RR War, 1908
Father
John Stoughton Newberry
Mother
Helen Parmale Handy
Spouse
Harriet Josephine Barnes, m. 2/7/1888, New York, New York
Children
Carol Newberry (b. 1888)
Barnes (b. 1891)
Phelps (b. 1891)
Nationality
American

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