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Note: The 1850 and 1860 Census suggest that George was born in June, July or August of 1848.
George W. Newhouse has been described by Josephine Newhouse, as short, thin and having a black beard. " When I was a little girl, he would hide behind the bushes in front of the house, then leap out to scare us kids."
He is listed as a shoemaker at age 23 in the 1870 Census. Josephine, his granddaughter, said that he made boots for officers during the Civil War. I suspect that he learned the trade from his Uncle Joseph Dibler, who is listed as a shoemaker in the 1841 Tax List of Salem Twp.
In 1976, The New Alexandria Bicentennial Historical Committee published a book titled: 200 YEARS of HISTORY in NEW ALEXANDRIA, Westmoreland County, PENNSYLVANIA. George Newhouse is mentioned in a paragraph on page 113 as follows:
"George and Sarah Hill Newhouse, lived in the Slightown area, where they raised their five children: Charles, Otis, Preston,
John, and daughter Margaret. He was a shoemaker and repairman, and had a shop and store in the area that was known
as Jacktown, which was torn down for flood control." George's second marriage to Edith W. Kinacomb, a woman almost half his age about 1899, is a mystery. Apparently she was a widow or divorcee, having three children. Edith's surname "Kinacomb" could be Kinnacomb, or Kimacomb; the 1900 census taker's handwriting is not clear. The name is not listed today, anywhere in the U.S.A. , according to Who/Where (Internet). The 1910 Census lists him as age 52, but he was really 62.
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