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Newberry
Newberry is a surname, a variant of Newbury. Notable people with the surname include: * Booker Newberry III (born 1956), American singer and keyboardist * Brennan Newberry (born, 1990), American professional stock car racing driver * Brian Newberry (born 1971), American politician and member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives * Christian Newberry (born 1968), British competitive figure skater * Clare Turlay Newberry (1903–1970), American author and illustrator of children's books * Claude Newberry (1888–1916), South African cricketer * Dan Newberry, American politician and member of the Oklahoma Senate * Fannie Ellsworth Newberry (1848–1942), American writer of girls' stories * George Newberry (1917–1978), British track cyclist * Graham Newberry (born 1998), British figure skater * Guillermo Newberry (born 1898), Argentine sprinter * Hazel Newberry, British dancer * Jake Newberry (born 1994), American baseball player * Janet Newberry (born 1953), American tennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Newberry
Jim Newberry (born December 16, 1956) was mayor of Lexington, Kentucky from December 31, 2006, until January 2, 2011. He defeated incumbent mayor Teresa Isaac by the largest vote margin in the history of Lexington-Fayette's merged "Urban County" government. This was also the first time in Lexington-Fayette history that a challenger had defeated a sitting mayor. Newberry was defeated after serving one term by businessman and Vice Mayor Jim Gray. Once taking office as Mayor, Newberry pursued an active agenda in many areas, including economic development, development of the city's urban core and a number of environmental initiatives. Personal life, education, and early career Jim Newberry grew up in Hiseville, Kentucky, the son of a state legislator and farmer father and a school teacher mother. Newberry spent his youth working on the family farm. Newberry received his bachelor's degree with a major in political science from the University of Kentucky in 1978. During his time as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brennan Newberry
Brennan Newberry (born February 9, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver. Racing career Newberry began his racing career in go-karts in 2000; later moving to full-bodied stock cars, he competed in the SRL Southwest Tour in 2007, then moved to USAC competition in 2008, racing in the Ford Focus Midget Car Series; he scored one win during the 2008 season, ending the year fourth in series points. In 2009 he returned to the Southwest Tour before moving to NASCAR competition in 2010, racing in the Toyota All-Star Showdown before running a limited schedule over the following three years in the K&N Pro Series West, scoring two poles in five races run in 2011. He finished 23rd in points that season, his best in the series. After failing to qualify for the season-ending race of 2011, Newberry made his debut in the Camping World Truck Series in 2012, driving for his family-owned NTS Motorsports team in ten races starting at Martinsville Speedway; he posted a best finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Josiah Newberry
J. J. Newberry's was an American five and dime store chain in the 20th century. It was founded in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1911 by John Josiah Newberry (1877–1954). J. J. Newberry learned the variety store business by working in stores for 17 years between 1894 and 1911. There were seven stores in the chain by 1918. John Josiah Newberry John Josiah Newberry (September 26, 1877 – March 6, 1954) was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, Newberry first worked in the railroad business before joining retail store Fowler, Dick and Walker in 1894. In 1899 he joined S. H. Kress & Co. where he stayed until 1911. He founded the J. J. Newberry chain of five and dime stores in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1911. The first store was a success, and he opened a branch in Freeland, Pennsylvania in 1912. After 1919 he managed the company with his brothers Edgar A. Newberry and C.T. Newberry. At the time of Newberry's death (1954), the J.J. Newberry chain had 475 stores. J. J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stoughton Newberry
John Stoughton Newberry (November 18, 1826 – January 2, 1887) was an American industrialist and politician. He served as the first provost marshal for the State of Michigan and as a U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan. Early life Newberry was born in Waterville, New York, the son of Elihu Newberry and Rhoda (Phelps) Newberry. He moved with his parents to Michigan when a child, residing in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Romeo. He completed preparatory studies at Romeo Academy and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1848 as head of his class. Under the influence of his uncle, Oliver Newberry, he spent two years in civil engineering working with the Michigan Central Railroad building the line from Kalamazoo to New Buffalo. Then he takes a year off traveling mostly by steamboat throughout the Midwest including the Great Lakes, The Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers. While traveling, he is shocked by the number of boat accidents due to the lack of established standa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Newberry
Graham Newberry (born June 7, 1998) is a British figure skater. He has won eight senior international medals, including gold at the 2017 Merano Cup, and is a four-time British national champion. He has reached the final segment at seven ISU Championships. Personal life Graham Newberry was born June 7, 1998, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He has dual British and American citizenship. He is the son of Christian Newberry, the 1989 British senior champion, and brother of Jack Newberry, the 2012 British junior bronze medalist. Career Newberry competed on the novice level in the 2011–12 season and moved up to the junior level the following season. At the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival, he placed third in both segments but came in fourth overall. In the 2013–14 season, Newberry received his first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments; he placed tenth in Mexico City and fifth in Ostrava. After winning the British junior title, he was sent to the 2014 World Junior Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Newberry
Christopher Jake Newberry (born November 20, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals. Career Amateur career Newberry attended Mira Mesa Senior High School in San Diego, California. The Kansas City Royals selected him in the 37th round of the 2012 MLB draft while he was in class. He signed with the Royals, beginning his professional career. Kansas City Royals Newberry made his professional debut that season with the Arizona League Royals, going 1-0 with a 2.81 ERA over 16 innings. He spent 2013 with the Burlington Royals, going 1-1 with a 2.68 ERA over 11 games (six starts), 2014 with the Idaho Falls Chukars in which he went 6-4 with a 4.50 ERA over 68 innings, and 2015 with the Lexington Legends, going 4-2 with a 5.04 ERA 35 relief appearances. Newberry spent 2016 with both Lexington and the Wilmington Blue Rocks, compiling a combined 3-2 record and 2.57 ERA over 35 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truman Handy Newberry
Truman Handy Newberry (November 5, 1864 – October 3, 1945) was an American businessman and political figure. He served as the Secretary of Navy between 1908 and 1909. He was a Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan between 1919 and 1922. Biography Newberry was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of John Stoughton Newberry (a U.S. Representative from Michigan) and his second wife, Helen P. Handy, the daughter of Truman P. Handy, a well-known financier and banker in Cleveland. Newberry attended Michigan Military Academy before graduating from Yale College's Sheffield Scientific School, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall in 1885. Career After college Newberry became superintendent of construction, paymaster, general freight and passenger agent, and eventually manager of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railway from 1885 to 1887. He was then president and treasurer of the Detroit Steel & Spring Company from 1887 to 1901. In 1902, he helped organize the Packard Motor Car Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Newberry
Percy Edward Newberry (23 April 1869 – 7 August 1949) was a British Egyptologist. Biography Percy Newberry was born in Islington, London on 23 April 1869. His parents were Caroline () and Henry James Newberry, a woollen warehouseman. Newberry developed a strong attachment to botany in childhood and was also an excellent artist. He studied at King's College School and King's College London, and studied botany at Kew Gardens. Career In 1884, on the invitation of Reginald Stuart Poole, Newberry began administrative work at the Egypt Exploration Fund, founded just two years previously. Here he met a number of established Egyptologists, including Flinders Petrie, Amelia Edwards and F. L. Griffith, who acted as his mentor. He continued in this role until 1886, when he began his own research in Egyptology, presenting a paper on botany in excavations to the British Association in 1888, with Petrie making use of Newberry's botanical expertise to identify botanical remains found duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Newberry
Thomas J. Newberry (born December 20, 1962) is a former American football guard from Onalaska, Wisconsin who played ten seasons in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams for nine years and the Pittsburgh Steelers for one year. He was a starter for the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX. He was a two-time (1988,1989) Pro Bowl and NFL All-Pro offensive guard. Newberry was named to the Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fame in 2015 College career After graduating from Onalaska High School, Newberry attended the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse on an academic scholarship. Newberry was a four year starter and letter winner on the offensive line for the Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football team under head coach Roger Harring. He was also a captain of the 1985 NAIA Division II Football National Championship winning team. While at UW–L he was a four time NCAA Division III National Champion in track and field, three times in shot put and one time in discus. He was indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Newberry
Brian C. Newberry (born December 10, 1971) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives representing District 48 since January 2009. Education Newberry graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Elections *2012 Newberry was unopposed for the September 11, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 32 votes and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 3,577 votes (51.7%) against Democratic nominee Michael Connolly and Independent candidate Linda Thibault. *2004 To challenge Senate District 22 Democratic Senator John Tassoni, Newberry was unopposed for the September 14, 2004 Republican Primary, but lost the November 2, 2004 General election to Senator Tassoni. *2006 To challenge House District 48 incumbent Democratic Representative Raymond Church, Newberry was unopposed for the September 12, 2006 Republican Primary, but lost the November 7, 2006 General electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Strong Newberry
John Strong Newberry (December 22, 1822 – December 7, 1892) was an American physician, geologist and paleontologist. He participated as a naturalist and surgeon on three expeditions to explore and survey the western United States. During the Civil War he served in the US Sanitary Commission and was appointed secretary of the western department of the commission. After the war he became professor of geology and paleontology at Columbia University School of Mines. Biography John Strong Newberry was born in Windsor, Connecticut to Henry and Elizabeth Strong. At the age of two he moved with his family to northeastern Ohio where his father opened a coal mining business. The fossils found in the coal deposits stimulated his interest in science and a visit in 1841 with James Hall, an eminent geologist and paleontologist, furthered his interests. He graduated from Western Reserve College in 1846 and from Cleveland Medical School in 1848. That same year he married Sarah Gaylord and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Newberry
Thomas Newberry (1811 – 16 January 1901) was an English Bible scholar and writer, best known for his interlinear Englishman's Bible', which compared the Authorised Version of the Bible with the Hebrew and Koine Greek of the original texts, first published in 1883 by Hodder and Stoughton, London. Life Newberry was born into a Christian household in 1811 and little is known about his upbringing. Reportedly, through the witness of his older sister and mother, both believers, he was born again at a young age. He ultimately came into fellowship with other Christians at the Plymouth Brethren assembly on Meadow Street, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK. He based his decision to join with the Brethren based on his studies of Scripture, and from 1840 had devoted himself to studying the Bible, not just in English but in its original languages of Hebrew and Greek. He found himself unable to agree with many of the practices and ordinances of the established churches of the day. After y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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