WILLIAM EDMOND NEWBERT

Sacramento County

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WILLIAM EDMOND NEWBERT

WILLIAM EDMOND NEWBERT.--A highly progressive, thoroughly representative man of affairs in Sacramento County is William Edmond Newbert, president of the Newbert Implement Company, of Sacramento. He was born in Sacramento County, at the “Mississippi Bar.” On April 29, 1867, the son of George W. and Mary Jane (Millard) Newbert, and his father had the distinction of being a pioneer of 1852, coming all the way from Maine across the wide plains, as did Mrs. Newbert, who accompanied her parents, the Millards, also sturdy pioneers. Meeting in the Golden State, Mr. Newbert and Miss Millard were married in Brighton Township, after which he mined for a while, and then entered the employ of the old Placerville Railroad.

Mr. Newbert next engaged in farming, and after that he was in business near Perkins. He came to Sacramento as a deputy sheriff, and for twenty years he was connected with the sheriff’s office. He then engaged in the hotel business, and managed the Bruce House, and after that the American Eagle; and when he passed away he was, officially, a deputy sheriff. His demise occurred in his fifty-sixth year and was the cause of wide regret. Mrs. Newbert, who was also beloved, died at the age of seventy years.

William E. Newbert attended the rural Brighton schools, and after a while went to the old Washington primary in Sacramento at the corner of Thirteenth and G Streets, and the grammar school at Sixteenth and J Streets, now known as the Mary Watson School. Finishing his studies, he went to work, and engaged in the retail hardware business with Joseph M. Martin at 920 J Street, where he remained for twenty years. He finished the unexpired term of his father as deputy sheriff, and then he came to work for Messrs. Baker & Hamilton, dealers in hardware and implements. Removing to Courtland, he tried the general merchandise business, joining Bauer, Miller & Newbert; but severing his connections, he returned to Baker & Hamilton, in the capital city. They moved their wholesale business to San Francisco, and it was then that the Newbert Implement Company was formed, in March,1913, to handle farm implements and farmers’ hardware, and Mr. Newbert has been president ever since.

Mr. Newbert played professional baseball for five years with the old Alta baseball club, as short-stop and he is naturally fond of sport and out-of-door life, and especially of hunting and golf. He belongs to the Native Sons of the Golden West, is a member of Lodge No. 6 of the Elks, is a Mason of the third degree, and is affiliated with the Eastern Star, and in each of these organizations enjoys an enviable popularity.

Transcribed by Priscilla J. Delventhal.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 555. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.