Background
Newman, Edgar Douglas was born on March 26, 1854 in Woodstock, Virginia, United States. Son of Benjamin P. and Elizabeth (Hickman) Newman.
Newman, Edgar Douglas was born on March 26, 1854 in Woodstock, Virginia, United States. Son of Benjamin P. and Elizabeth (Hickman) Newman.
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. Graduate Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, July 4, 1876 (first in class).
Practiced, Woodstock, since 1878. President Shenandoah National Bank, and Shenandoah Valley Loan & Trust Company (Woodstock), Massanutten National Bank (Strasburg), 1st National Bank (Luray). Vice president Citizens’ Bank (New Market).
President People's Bank (Mount Jackson, Virginia).
Captain Virginia Volunteer Company, 2d Regiment, 1880-1885. Chairman Democratic County Committee, Shenandoah County, Virginia, 1883-1886.
Member Democratic State Executive Committee, 1900-1904. Judge County Court, Shenandoah County, 1886-1898.
Chairman district draft board Western District of Virginia, 1917-1918.
Home: Woodstock, Virginia.
Member Democratic
Married Mary O. Walton, December 20, 1877. Children: Wilbur Lauck, Edgar Walton, Helen, Harold Hastings, Houston Hickman, Douglas Cook.