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• Fourth in a Series of 10)That I want to write something about the Newman and Shepherd families for they were most closely associated with niv boyhood days Mr. Charles E. Newman, head of the family in those days, was perhaps the best known of all Nor-w’alk insurance agents. He was deeply interested also in all church work, especially that of the Episcopal church, where for manyyears he was the superintendent of the Sunday school, and about all that I recall of those “religious” days of mine were under h i sguidance. Associated with M r.Newman in St. Paul's Sabbathschool was Mr. Eli Peters (father of the late VV. H. Peters*. Mr. Peters led the singing I can never forget him as he stood in the front with hymn book in hand keeping time with his right foot while Aunt Lizzie Gallup played the accompani ment on the old whezzy organ. Later in the program the rector, the Rev. Royal B Balcome came in to take part and pronounce the blessing. Mi*. Newman was not only an insurance agent and a Sunday school worker but he went in for other activities. He and his brother Samuel, who was his partner in the insurance business anda great educator, having been at one time the principal of the highschool, were the men who introduced the culture of the honey bee in this territory. All the sweet clover you see along the country roads was sowed by them to provide sweet food for their bees’ maintenance. Also. Mr. Newman was the first “curator” of the Forelands Museum and it was through his foresight that many of our museum exhibits have been preserved. He died in 1H87, the death of his wife occurred some years later. They were the parents of one child, who was Ella, the wife of Theodore Dwight Shepherd and the mother of Mrs. I, W. Goodell. Mr. Shepherd was one of the bestknown of Norwalk men and at the time of his death in 1905 was the | u postmaster of Norwalk. Their two children, Charles V. and Corine • wife of the late I. W. Goodell' were two of my childhood playmates and they continued to be my dearest friends through our lives In those days a couple of their cousins often came from New Jersey to spend the summers here — Susie and May Hathaway, daughters of the Rev. Israel Hathaway, who at one time was the pastor ofthe Norwalk Universalist Church, The Hathaway girls had attended one of the first kindergarten schools to be established in New York. They brought some of their ideas with them and for one entire summer our little gang sat on the side porch of the Newman home engaged in making colored paperchains which decorated some of the rooms in the house. Charles V.Shepherd died a number of years ago. He was perhaps my most intimate friend throught life. Mrs.Goodell is one of my near neighbors and a dear friend of a lifetime.
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1957
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