ABRAHAM K. NEWCOMER, one of the prosperous and best known farmers in Manor township, ·Lancaster county, Pa., and residing two miles south of Mountville, was born July 8, 1842, and was reared on the old homestead. He was educated in the public schools, and. at nineteen years of age began learning the carpenter’s trade with Jacob Sneath; this trade he followed for eight years, and then began farming near Safe Harbor on a tract of thirty-seven acres. Seven years later he purchased forty-two acres of the Lehman farm, to which he at once removed, having sold his farm at Safe Harbor. He passed eighteen years on this new property, then without selling it, returned to the old Newcomer homestead in 1896, on which he lived until the spring of 1899, when he located on his present farm, south of Mountville. He now owns the forty-two-acre Lehman farm, forty acres of the Newcomer homestead, and six and a half acres where he resides near Mountville. In conjunction with general farming he has done considerable carpenter work and has erected all his own buildings as occasion required.
Mr. Newcomer married, Nov. 19, 1868, Miss Mary Ann Rutt, a native of Lancaster county, and a daughter of David Rutt. To this union have been born nine children, in the following order: Alice, wife of Frank Hershey, of West Hempfield township; Amos, farming on his father’s place and married to Clara Witmer; Martha, wife of Milton Millhouse, a farmer of Manor township ; Abraham, also a farmer in Manor township and married to Ellen Dombauch; Mary; Ellen, Elizabeth, David and
Annie.
Mr. Newcomer has been an active member of the Mennonite church about twenty-three years, and for a long time has been a member of the official board; in April, 1899, he was made a deacon, and his life has been one of quiet usefulness and industry. The family stand among the county’s most worthy and respected citizens, and although unassuming in deportment, ‘are effective in their usefulness.
Biographical Annals of Lancaster County,1903. pp 335-336.
