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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

  87-88

        RICHARD LANO NEWMAN, son of R. L. and ANNA J. (PENNY) NEWMAN, was
     born in 1864 at Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England. He was educated at
     Kimberly Grammar School, Falmouth, and at Berkbeck Institute, London.
     In 1881 he entered the office of JOHN PENN & Son, marine engineers of
     London, as a pupil. Here he remained seven years, during the last two
     of which he was in the drawing office of the firm. At the end of this
     term he entered the employ of the Earle Ship Building Company, Hull,
     England, where he remained four years, for three and one-half of
     which he was chief draughtsman, under the direction of A. E. Seaton.
     This engagement was followed by one of like duration with Maudsley,
     Son & Field, of Lambeth, London, England. During the time he was thus
     employed he was engaged on the designs for machinery for the Italian,
     Spanish, Brazilian, Chilian and British men-of-war; in fact, at this
     time, this company had under construction over 200,000 horse-power of
     machinery. He then resigned this position to take up that of the
     managership of the British Yaryan Company, which he resigned in 1890,
     and came to the United States.
        On the recommendation of CHIEF ENGINEER AYERS, who was then chief
     of the Brooklyn navy yard, and who had made the acquaintance of
     EDWARD NEWMAN while on the China station (and who, for a number of
     years, was engineer-in-chief of the Portsmouth dock yard, England),
     he secured a position in the office of WILLIAM CRAMP & Sons, and in
     about six months was established as one of their leading draughtsmen,
     and had charge of quite a lot of machinery turned out by this cele-
     brated firm. He was engaged more or less in the construction of the
     New York, Columbia, Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, Brooklyn and
     Iowa. In a correspondence which passed between him and MR. PANKHURST,
     manager of the Globe Iron Works Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, he was
     tendered, and accepted, the position of chief engineer in the yards
     of this shipbuilding company. About six months after he was offered
     the position of chief engineer and naval architect, which he accept-
     ed; and on the final illness of MR. PANKHURST, which necessitated
     travel and rest, MR. NEWMAN was then appointed assistant general
     manager, and, on the death of MR. PANKHURST, he succeded him as
     general manager.
        MR. NEWMAN is a member of the Society of Naval Engineers, Washing-
     ton, D. C.; of the Institute of Naval Architects, and of the Civil
     Engineers Club, of Cleveland. He was first president of the engineers
     section of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and on the organization
     of Beacon College, Philadelphia, he was appointed professor of mech-
     anical engineering, theoretical and applied mechanics, etc.
        MR. NEWMAN was united in marriage with Miss ANNA CHARLOTTE HUNTLEY
     MITCHELL, of London, England, an adopted daughter of MR. ANNETTS, of
     Wiltshire, England, the ceremony being performed in St. Mary's
     Church, New York City.

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