He is married to Harriet Douglass Brower.
They got married in the year 1857 at Albany, Albany County, New York, he was 29 years old.
Child(ren):
THOMAS MCLEAN NEWSON was born in New York City, Feb. 22, 1827, of Scotch-Irish parentage. His paternal grandfather was paymaster in the army during the war of 1812. His father, Capt. George Newson, commanded a military company in New York City for seventeen years. Three uncles were in the war of 1812. His father removed to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1832, and both parents died there in 1834. The son, after his parents' death, was placed in a boarding school. When he left the school he learned the printer's trade, and on arriving at his majority entered into partnership with John B. Hotchkiss in the publication of the _Derby Journal_, in Birmingham, Connecticut. During this period he wrote poetry, delivered lectures, and took an active part in political affairs. He was secretary of the first editorial association in Connecticut, and started and conducted for a year the first daily penny paper in the State. He was one of the originators of the reform school and an efficient promoter of its interests.
He came to St. Paul in 1853, where he was first associated with Joseph R. Brown in the editorial department of the _Pioneer_, but the following spring, in company with others, started the _Daily Times_, which he edited until 1860, when he leased the material to W. R. Marshall. The _Press_ was the outgrowth of this movement. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in the State and was sole delegate of his party in Minnesota to the Pittsburgh national convention.
At the outbreak of the Rebellion he entered the service of his country, was commissioned commissary of subsistence and subsequently appointed acting assistant quartermaster, with the rank of captain. At one time he was chief commissary at St. Cloud. He left the army with a splendid record for honesty and capacity, with the brevet rank of major, conferred for meritorious service, and the offer of a position in the regular army, which he declined. In 1866 he was commander and president of a company which explored the Vermillion Lake region prospecting for precious metals. He was the first to assay the iron ores, now so famous, in that region. In later years we find him prospecting amongst the Black Hills, enjoying the wild life of the frontier and devoting some attention to literature. While there he wrote a drama of "Life in the Hills" and delivered lectures at various times and places, achieving in this line an enviable success. Since this period he has written and published an interesting work, entitled "Thrilling Scenes Among the Indians," drawn from his own observation and experience; also "Pen Pictures and Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers of St. Paul, from 1838 to 1857," a rich and racy book of seven hundred and thirty-two pages, in which the driest biographical details are enlivened with amusing anecdotes and witty comments, in which naught is set down in malice, but every line glows with the genial spirit of the author. He has in contemplation another volume on the same subject. He has also published "Heleopa," "Indian Legends" and "Recollections of Eminent Men." Maj. Newson is a man of varied and miscellaneous gifts. He is a ready writer, a fluent and eloquent speaker, a journalist, a historian and the oldest editor in Minnesota. He is corresponding secretary of the National Editorial Association, and the first and only honorary member of the State Fire Association; he is a geologist, mineralogist and assayer, a member of the G. A. R., of the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges, and of the Junior Pioneers. He is broad-gauged and popular in his views and positive in the expression of his opinions. He was married to Miss Harriet D. Brower, in Albany, New York, in 1857, and has a family of five girls and one boy, May, Hattie, Nellie, Jessie, Grace, and T. M. Newson, Jr.
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Thomas McLean Newson was an editor and writer. He was the author of the following books:
Adventures Among the Indians; Or, Scouting with Gen. Custer by William Henry Giles Kingston and Thomas McLean Newson
Thrilling Scenes Among the Indians: With a Graphic Description of Custer'S Last Fight with Sitting Bull by Thomas McLean Newson
Pen Pictures of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers: From the Earliest Settlement of the City, Up to and Including the Year 1857, by Thomas McLean Newson
Saint Paul Illustrated: The Past, the Present, the Future - Thomas McLean Newson. J. J. Lemon, 1879 - Saint Paul (Minn.) - 41 pages.
Indian Legends of Minnesota Lakes, Author Thomas McLean Newson, Publisher A.S. Dimond, 1881
Thomas McLean Newson founded the St. Paul Daily News in 1854 and published the newspaper for the next nine years.
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Thos. M. Newson 59, born New York; Harriet Newson 51, born New York; Mary Newson 27, born Minnesota; Harriet Newson 25, born Minnesota; Nellie Newson 23, born Minnesota; Jessie Newson 21, born Minnesota; Thos Newson 12, born Minnesota; Grace Newson 8, born Minnesota; S. D. Brower 78, born New York;/ online database
T M Newson 43, retired editor, born New York; Harriett Newson 33, keeping house, born New York; Mary Newson 12, born Minnesota; Hattie Newson 10, born Minnesota;
Nelley Newson 8, born Minnesota; Jessey Newson 6, born Minnesota; Effie Newson 2/12, born Minnesota; Johanna Conelley 30, dressmaker, born Ireland;
Thomas M. Newson 54, retired editor, born New York; Harriet Newson 46, wife, keeps house, born New York; Mary Newson 22, daughter, born Minnesota; Harriet Newson 20, daughter, born Minnesota; Nellie Newson 18, daughter, born Minnesota;
Jessie Newson 15, daughter, born Minnesota; Thomas M. Newson 7, son, born Minnesota; Grace Newson 3, daughter, born Minnesota;
Maj.NEWSON DEAD
A report reached St. Paul that Maj. Thomas M. Newson, the veteran Minnesota newspaper man, had died of smallpox at Malaga, Spain, where he has been the American consul since 1890.
Maj Newson was born in New York City, where his father, Gen. Newson, was commander of a military company, on Feb. 22, 1827. His grandfather was paymaster on Governor's Island during the War of 1812.
It was in 1853 that he came to St. Paul and engaged as associate editor of the old Pioneer, then edited by Maj. Joseph R. Brown. He remained in this position until spring when he started the St. Paul Daily and Weekly Times, which he continued for seven years. It was staunchly Republican in politics and its editor was prominent in the party councils. He was the sole delegate from Minnesota when the party was organized at Pittsburg, and was associated on its committees with Horace Greeley, Abijah Mann, Henry J. Raymond, and Joshua R. Giddings. He strongly supported Lincoln and stumped the state in his behalf.
Smallpox caused the death of Thomas M. Newson, of St. Paul, United States consul at Malaga, Spain.
Name: Thomas M. Newson, Birth Place: New York; Residence Date: 1 Jul 1891;/ database online
Station or Residence Place: U.S. Consul at Malaga, Spain and Dominions