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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAj 



He first settled in Rochester, N. Y., 

 and there became Interested in the doc- 

 trine of the Millennium, and after a few 

 years purchased the Millennial Harbin- 

 ger, which he edited and published for 

 ten years, at the same time he regularly 

 preached the Millennial doctrines to 

 several congregations in Seneca Falls, 

 Palmyra, Syracuse, Rochester, etc. 



At the close of the War he moved to 

 Harvard, McHenry county, Ills., and in 

 connection with his religious periodical, 

 he started the Harvard Independent, 

 which is still in existence. 



In 1866' he sold out all his publishing 

 interests, and took his wife and three 

 children (two daughters and one son) 

 with hi.m to England, where his wife's 

 mother was very ill. She continued to 

 get worse, and in 1868 she died. This 

 tie being severed, the whole family re- 

 turned to America, and this time settling 

 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Mr. N. 

 started the daily Observer, which now 

 lives as the daily Repvhlican. 



After the great fire Mr. Newman 

 moved to Chicago, and purchased the 

 Amekican Bee Journal, then edited by, 

 the Rev. W. F. Clarke, Mr. Fred. Grabbe 

 being the Business Manager. Before 

 this he had been much interested in the 

 pursuit of bee-keeping, and he soon had 

 an apiary of about 100 colonies estab- 

 lished in Chicago, where now it is thickly 

 inhabited, between Madison and Monroe 

 streets, and Western and Oakley aven- 

 ues — only a block from where be now 

 resides. 



As this locality became more densely 

 Inhabited, the bees invaded the grocery 

 stores, and as a result were moved out 

 of the city. Another reason for the re- 

 moval of the bees, was the fact that the 

 dirt and "flying soot" of the city not 

 only darkened the color of the honey, 

 but affected its taste as well. 



At the meeting of the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Association at Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., during the Centennial Exposi- 

 tion, Mr. Newman was elected its Secre- 

 tary, and at the meeting in New York, 

 in 1878, he was elected its President by 

 a unanimous vote, and upon being con- 

 ducted to the chair by Dr. E. Parmly 

 and Prof, llasbrouck, he gave an ad- 

 dress recommending co-operation, con- 

 cert of action, and unity among bee- 

 keepers, which received hearty applause, 

 for many of the years previous had been 

 spent in discord, divisions and disputes. 



The published report of that conven- 

 tion states that " tbe President was ap- 

 pointed to represent this society at the 

 meetings of European bee-keepers dur- 

 ing the following summer, and to en- 



deavor to open up a European market 

 for our honey crop." 



He accordingly went to Europe at his 

 own expense, attended to the matters 

 deputized to him by the society, and to 

 the next meeting he reported that, in 

 accordance with the instructions of the 

 last convention, he had attended three 

 bee and honey sIjows in England, one in 

 Scotland, one in Switzerland, and one in 

 Austria; had visited many of the most 

 prominent apiarists of England, Scot- 

 land, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ger- 

 many and France ; had endeavored to 

 remove the [irejudice existing against 

 American honey, and oelieved that many 

 avenues had been created for the dis- 

 posal of the surplus honey crop of 

 America. 



This report was referred to a commit- 

 tee of three, who reported as follows : 



liemlved. That this Association has lis- 

 tened with much pleasure to President 

 Newman's report of his trip to Europe, and 

 hereby expresses its high appreciation of 

 the able and successful manner in which he 

 has represented the interests of American 

 apiculture at the honey shows and apiarian 

 meetings of the Old World. It heartily ap- 

 proves of the efforts he has made to dis- 

 seminate broad views as to the cheap pro- 

 duction and enlarged consumption of 

 honey, and thereby aided in securing a 

 larger market for this important product. 

 In view of the fact that President New- 

 man's tour was wholly at his own expense, 

 the special thanks of this Association are 

 due, and are hereby tendered to him for the 

 eminent service he has performed. 



Bcmlved, That this Association rejoices in 

 the cordial and enthusiastic reception ac- 

 corded to President Newman by the apicul- 

 tural societies and leading bee-masters in 

 Britain and on the European continent, 

 trusting that the harmonious feeling evinced 

 may always be ciicrished by the bee-keep- 

 ers of the world towai'ds each other. This 

 Association hopes that the friendly visit 

 which has been maile. will ere long be re- 

 turned by some one or more of prominent 

 apiculturists of Europe, to whom it will be 

 our pride and pleasure to extend as hearty 

 a welcome as that given to our representa- 

 tive. 



Mr. Newman was unanimously re-elec- 

 ted President, and at the following meet- 

 ing Mr. Williamson offered the following 

 resolution, .which was adopteil : 



Rewired, By the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, in convention assembled, 

 that the thanks of tlds Association are due, 

 and are hereby tendered to Thomas G. 

 Newman, Esq., our retiring President, for 

 the zealous, untiriuji and successful manner 

 in which he has conducted the affairs of 

 this Association; and we further thank him 

 for his great liberality in traveling through 

 Europe in the past year at his own expense, 

 thus being the means of opening up aven- 



