Lafayette Newman
Lafayette Newman, farmer and stock dealer, P.O. Mechanicsburg. Lafayette Newman, a prominent young farmer, ws born November 26, 1843, in Pike Township, Madison Co., Ohio. He is a son of George W. and Martha Newman, deceased. This gentleman has been reared on a farm, and received a good common-school education. For a short time he taught school in Pike Township. On October 15, 1871, he married Miss Eliza J. Rutan, daughter of David and Magdalena Rutan. By this union there has been an issue of three children — Magdalena, Martha and Herbert. Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Newman settled on a farm, about one mile northwest of Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, where he remained nine and one half years. From thence he located in the western portion of Pike Township, Madison County, where he still resides. He is a man of a retiring and unassuming nature. Politically, he is a Democrat. He is also a man of strict temperate habits, and the owner of 161 acres of land in a good state of cultivation.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]