When Henry Newman was born in 1883, in Illinois, United States, his father, Charles Andrew Newman, was 40 and his mother, Mary Ann Steer, was 36. He lived in Saint Stephens, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died in 1887, at the age of 4, and was buried in Nelson Township, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States.
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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
English (southern): nickname from Middle English newe ‘new’ (i.e. newly arrived or newly appointed) + man ‘man’ (Old English nīwe + mann).
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘new man, newcomer’, for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neumann , Swedish Nyman , Polish Nowak , Czech or Slovak Novák, Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Novak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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