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Portrait of Walter Stephenson Newman as a young man. He is most remembered as having served as the 10th President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), now called Virginia Tech, from 1947 until his retirement 15 years later, in 1962.

Born a…

Group photograph of six children of Edgar Douglas Newman and Mary Walton Newman.

The children are, from left to right, Wilbur L. Newman, Edgar Newman Jr., Helen Newman (Sager), Harold Newman, Houston Newman, and Douglas Newman.

Which child is…

On the right is Elizabeth Hickman Newman (1822-1917). She is holding her great-granddaughter Elizabeth Newman. Her grandson Wilbur Lauck Newman stands at the rear of the image. On the left is Elizabeth’s son, Edgar Douglas Newman.

Portrait of Edgar Newman wearing a suit jacket and a bow tie.

Portrait of Edgar Douglas Newman in his later years.

Group of Woodstock High School students at the main entrance to the school. A few have been identified. They are: French Boyer (upper left), Josephine Newman (below French), Louis Glenn Locke (on French's left), Margaret Grabill (upper center). The…

Photograph of Mr. Richard "Dick" Newman seated on a chair with two engraved silver cups in front of him. The engravings can't be read and we are unsure of what they signify.

Dick Newman lived in Woodstock during the 1950's.

Portrait of Elizabeth (Hickman) Newman holding her great granddaughter, Elizabeth Newman.

This image is a cropped version of Morrison photo 02542.

The name, “Mrs. Syd Newman” is written on the glass plate of the image of these two young boys posed together.

After some research, we believe It is possible the boy on the left was Stanley Franklin Gochenour (1914-2000) and the boy on the right…

Portrait of Houston Hickman Newman in a striped suit and tie.

Houston was born in Woodstock to Edgar Douglas (1854-1927) and Mary Ott (Walton) (1855-1942) Newman.

His wife was Edna Flavelle Jones and they married in 1914.

When he registered…

Photograph of "Judge Newman's Bible Class," part of what is now the Woodstock United Methodist Church.

Judge Edgar Newman is seated center with rolled paper in his hand. The other subjects are unidentified.

The building in the background is…