- ba000959
- Item
- circa 1880
Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
George Palmer Newell, born in Yorkshire, England, on May 23, 1810. He came to the United States in 1828. "He came across the plains from Michigan to California on the back of a mule, in company with 50 mean riding mules, and each had a pack mule - in 1848 or 1849." He married Emma Weston (of Burlington, Iowa) on July 18, 1852, in Oregon City. George Newell was a professor of music and also worked as Surveyor of Customs at Pacific City. He died November 13, 1886.