BIO: Mitchell NEWCOMB, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 379 & 380.
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  MITCHELL NEWCOMB, who is one of Girard Township's best known and substantial 
and trustworthy men, lives on the farm of 35 acres in Girard Township, 
Clearfield County, Pa., on which he was born in 1859, and owns also 235 acres of 
valuable farm and coal land here.  He is a son of John and Rebecca (Jury) 
Newcomb.
  John Newcomb was born in Ireland.  He came to Clearfield County on July 4, 
1847 and being pleased with the country made up his mind to settle permanently 
in Girard Township, where he was married in 1851, to Rebecca Jury, who still 
survives, being now in her seventy-eighth year.  She is a daughter of Abraham 
Jury, who was one of the early settlers who died a Catholic in this section.  
John Newcomb was a farmer and died on the farm on which he had lived for half a 
century, December 14, 1903, aged 89 years, 11 months, 11 days.
  Mitchell Newcomb obtained his education in the country schools and at Odessa.  
He has always devoted himself to farming and stockraising and has carried on 
these industries very successfully.  His land is very valuable, as a large part 
is underlaid with coal, which he has never sold.  Mr. Newcomb has never married.  
With his venerable mother he belongs to St. Mary's Catholic Church at 
Frenchville.