Walter Cass Newberry (December 23, 1835 – July 20, 1912) was a

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from

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Biography

Newberry was born in

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and enlisted in the Union Army during the

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as a private in the Eighty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1861,

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in 1862,

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of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, New York Cavalry, in 1863, lieutenant colonel and

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in 1864, and was brevetted brigadier general March 31, 1865. He moved to

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in 1865, and served as mayor of Petersburg in 1869 and 1870, resigning in the latter year. He moved to

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in 1870, and was superintendent of public property for the state for four years. He moved to

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, Illinois, in 1876, and was postmaster of Chicago in 1888 and 1889. Newberry was elected as a

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to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892. He died in Chicago on July 20, 1912, and was interred in

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Source material

*''10,000 Famous Freemasons from K to Z'', Volume 3, Page 262, By William R. Denslow, Harry S. Truman

References

External links

Walter Cass Newberry Papers
at

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