Newcomb family.

Daniel Newcomb (1746-1818) was born in Norton, Mass. and graduated at Harvard in 1768. In 1769-1774, he headed various schools in Massachusetts. By 1778, he settled at Keene, Cheshire Co., N.H. and started to practice law. He was Justice of New Hampshire state supreme court in 1796-1798, and a member of New Hampshire state senate in 1800 and 1805-06. After his first wife Sarah Stearns of Lunenburg, Mass, died in 1796, he married Hannah Dawes (1769-1851).

Henry Stearns Newcomb (1788-1825), son of Daniel and Sarah Stearns Newcomb, joined the Navy and distinguished himself in the War of 1812. In 1814, he married Rhoda Mardenborough. One of their sons, Henry S. Newcomb, followed in his father's footsteps and became a naval officer. He died in October 1863, while serving with the East Gulf Blockade squadron. The other son Charles King Newcomb (1820-1894) was a noted diarist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Daniel Newcomb's youngest daughter Patty (b. 1796) married Dr. Marlin Johnson (1800-1828). The couple moved to Middlebury, Ohio where Dr. Johnson started medical practice. After his death in 1828, Patty married David Garrett and the family moved to Cleveland. Her son from the first marriage, Henry N. Johnson, a graduate of Western Reserve College, taught school in Louisiana in 1844-1849. He then returned to Cleveland and was admitted to the bar in 1851. In 1857-1861, he edited the Cleveland Daily Review.