Chenia A. Newberry
The business career of Chenia A. Newberry has been significantly characterized by courage, self-reliance, progressiveness. His unchangable purpose, high integrity have won the confidence and esteem so essential in the important mercantile enterprise to which he has devoted his attention and energies, and through which he has gained high standing in the financial circles of western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and South Dakota. During practically all his business career Mr. Newberry has been associated with the hardware business and no other vouchers are needed to attest his success than the substantial establishments of which he is the owner in Alliance. As one of the representative business men and progressive public spirited citizens of Box Butte county, he merits specific recognition in this publication of the great commonwealth of Nebraska and its counties.
Chenia A. Newberry is a Wolverine, born in New Baltimore, Michigan, April 9, 1869, the son of Norman and Fannie (Morris) Newberry, the former having been a farmer. Chenia was the youngest of two children, as he had one sister. The boy passed his childhood and early youth on farms, acquiring the rudiments of an education by attending the common schools of Michigan in the winter time; and after he accompanied his parents to their prairie farm in Buffalo county, Nebraska, was sent to school in a sod house, and though it contrasted to what he had known in Michigan the boy made the best of his advantages. This was in 1881, when the conditions of life and education were far different from those of the present day. On the homestead twelve miles north of Kearney, Chenia Newberry grew to early manhood, enured to the hardships of frontier life which held no fears for him nor daunted his spirit. Until the age of seventeen he remained on the farm, then determined to seek a commercial career. The youth found employment in a hardware store in Ravenna in the northern part of Buffalo county where he laid the foundation for his subsequent commercial career, which reads almost like a fairy story, as few men achieve such great success within such a short time. In 1888, Mr. Newberry came to Alliance to found what is today one of the large, important, and interesting industrial enterprises of this city and Box Butte county, and this publication gives special recognition to this representative corporation, for in the upbuilding of the business has been exemplified the splendid energy and initiative ability of its founder, who has made of his individual success a medium of leverage for the uplifting of civic and material prosperity in his home city and county. Of the inception and growth of the business founded by Mr. Newberry in Alliance, a brief record will be given.
br The present enterprise had a humble beginning, Mr. Newberry first established himself with a hardware stock in connection with which he ran a tin shop; his business grew rapidly, by leaps and bounds; within six years after coming here he found it necessary to build a large structure known as the Glenn Miller building with floor space twenty-five by sixty-four feet; this soon was too small so the building was extended back at the rear for greater floor space. Then followed a tin shop built in 1898, and two years later he erected a brick warehouse of practically the same size near the railroad, but the growing business demanded still larger quarters to house the various departments. To accommodate these a large three-story and basement structure was erected on Fourth street between Box Butte and Laramie avenues, which is entirely given over to the wholesale business, which has expanded to such proportions that at present Mr. Newberry has three salesmen on the road covering a large territory which includes western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and western South Dakota. Five years ago the retail business also was established in a new home; this fine building covers a ground space of fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, is built of brick and fire proof. From basement to roof it is filled with the finest goods of the hardware trade. The basement is used for storage; the main floor for retail trade; the second floor is at present used as a sample room for display of goods; while an up-to-date harness factory with the latest designed machines for this work has been installed on the third floor. Fifty men are on the payroll of the Newberry Company which amounts to over $8,000 a month, which gives some slight idea of the immense amount of business transacted within a year.
Mr. Newberry is progressive in policy which implies up-to-date service to all his customers, and his equipment has all the modern facilities for this purpose. His various establishments are a source of pride to the city of his adoption and its many residents. In other words, "He has put Alliance on the map." Today this man is one of the best known residents of the northwestern section of our great commonwealth, because of his own reputation as a keen, shrewd, farsighted man and a wholesaler; he is full of life and energy which is well displayed in his business houses for he is the busiest one of the fifty or mere men to be found on the premises every working day, putting in many more hours at his desk than any of his many employes.
July 23, 1893, Mr. Newberry married Miss Nellie Brennan, the daughter of Martin and May (Fitzgerald) Brennan; the latter being a native of Michigan. Mrs. Newberry was the sixth oldest in a family of twelve children, consisting of ten boys and two girls. There are five living children in the Newberry family: May, the wife of Frank Abegg, the cashier of the First National Bank of Alliance; Norman M., who graduated from the high school and then engaged in business with his father; Agnes, a student at St. Agnes Academy, of Alliance; Helen, also attending the same school, and Master Bill, a sturdy boy of eight. While Mr. Newberry is interested in all movements for the civic and public uplift of the community, he has been far too busy with the many responsibilities of his business to take public office, believing the man best fitted to serve should be elected, and votes with this idea in mind. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen and Knights of Columbus.
Source: History of Western Nebraska and Its People; Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux Counties. A Group Often Called The Panhandle of Nebraska, 1921 -
The business career of Chenia A. Newberry has been significantly characterized by courage, self-reliance, progressiveness. His unchangable purpose, high integrity have won the confidence and esteem so essential in the important mercantile enterprise to which he has devoted his attention and energies, and through which he has gained high standing in the financial circles of western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and South Dakota. During practically all his business career Mr. Newberry has been associated with the hardware business and no other vouchers are needed to attest his success than the substantial establishments of which he is the owner in Alliance. As one of the representative business men and progressive public spirited citizens of Box Butte county, he merits specific recognition in this publication of the great commonwealth of Nebraska and its counties.
Chenia A. Newberry is a Wolverine, born in New Baltimore, Michigan, April 9, 1869, the son of Norman and Fannie (Morris) Newberry, the former having been a farmer. Chenia was the youngest of two children, as he had one sister. The boy passed his childhood and early youth on farms, acquiring the rudiments of an education by attending the common schools of Michigan in the winter time; and after he accompanied his parents to their prairie farm in Buffalo county, Nebraska, was sent to school in a sod house, and though it contrasted to what he had known in Michigan the boy made the best of his advantages. This was in 1881, when the conditions of life and education were far different from those of the present day. On the homestead twelve miles north of Kearney, Chenia Newberry grew to early manhood, enured to the hardships of frontier life which held no fears for him nor daunted his spirit. Until the age of seventeen he remained on the farm, then determined to seek a commercial career. The youth found employment in a hardware store in Ravenna in the northern part of Buffalo county where he laid the foundation for his subsequent commercial career, which reads almost like a fairy story, as few men achieve such great success within such a short time. In 1888, Mr. Newberry came to Alliance to found what is today one of the large, important, and interesting industrial enterprises of this city and Box Butte county, and this publication gives special recognition to this representative corporation, for in the upbuilding of the business has been exemplified the splendid energy and initiative ability of its founder, who has made of his individual success a medium of leverage for the uplifting of civic and material prosperity in his home city and county. Of the inception and growth of the business founded by Mr. Newberry in Alliance, a brief record will be given.
br The present enterprise had a humble beginning, Mr. Newberry first established himself with a hardware stock in connection with which he ran a tin shop; his business grew rapidly, by leaps and bounds; within six years after coming here he found it necessary to build a large structure known as the Glenn Miller building with floor space twenty-five by sixty-four feet; this soon was too small so the building was extended back at the rear for greater floor space. Then followed a tin shop built in 1898, and two years later he erected a brick warehouse of practically the same size near the railroad, but the growing business demanded still larger quarters to house the various departments. To accommodate these a large three-story and basement structure was erected on Fourth street between Box Butte and Laramie avenues, which is entirely given over to the wholesale business, which has expanded to such proportions that at present Mr. Newberry has three salesmen on the road covering a large territory which includes western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and western South Dakota. Five years ago the retail business also was established in a new home; this fine building covers a ground space of fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, is built of brick and fire proof. From basement to roof it is filled with the finest goods of the hardware trade. The basement is used for storage; the main floor for retail trade; the second floor is at present used as a sample room for display of goods; while an up-to-date harness factory with the latest designed machines for this work has been installed on the third floor. Fifty men are on the payroll of the Newberry Company which amounts to over $8,000 a month, which gives some slight idea of the immense amount of business transacted within a year.
Mr. Newberry is progressive in policy which implies up-to-date service to all his customers, and his equipment has all the modern facilities for this purpose. His various establishments are a source of pride to the city of his adoption and its many residents. In other words, "He has put Alliance on the map." Today this man is one of the best known residents of the northwestern section of our great commonwealth, because of his own reputation as a keen, shrewd, farsighted man and a wholesaler; he is full of life and energy which is well displayed in his business houses for he is the busiest one of the fifty or mere men to be found on the premises every working day, putting in many more hours at his desk than any of his many employes.
July 23, 1893, Mr. Newberry married Miss Nellie Brennan, the daughter of Martin and May (Fitzgerald) Brennan; the latter being a native of Michigan. Mrs. Newberry was the sixth oldest in a family of twelve children, consisting of ten boys and two girls. There are five living children in the Newberry family: May, the wife of Frank Abegg, the cashier of the First National Bank of Alliance; Norman M., who graduated from the high school and then engaged in business with his father; Agnes, a student at St. Agnes Academy, of Alliance; Helen, also attending the same school, and Master Bill, a sturdy boy of eight. While Mr. Newberry is interested in all movements for the civic and public uplift of the community, he has been far too busy with the many responsibilities of his business to take public office, believing the man best fitted to serve should be elected, and votes with this idea in mind. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen and Knights of Columbus.
Source: History of Western Nebraska and Its People; Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux Counties. A Group Often Called The Panhandle of Nebraska, 1921 -
Chenia A. Newberry
The business career of Chenia A. Newberry has been significantly characterized by courage, self-reliance, progressiveness. His unchangable purpose, high integrity have won the confidence and esteem so essential in the important mercantile enterprise to which he has devoted his attention and energies, and through which he has gained high standing in the financial circles of western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and South Dakota. During practically all his business career Mr. Newberry has been associated with the hardware business and no other vouchers are needed to attest his success than the substantial establishments of which he is the owner in Alliance. As one of the representative business men and progressive public spirited citizens of Box Butte county, he merits specific recognition in this publication of the great commonwealth of Nebraska and its counties.
Chenia A. Newberry is a Wolverine, born in New Baltimore, Michigan, April 9, 1869, the son of Norman and Fannie (Morris) Newberry, the former having been a farmer. Chenia was the youngest of two children, as he had one sister. The boy passed his childhood and early youth on farms, acquiring the rudiments of an education by attending the common schools of Michigan in the winter time; and after he accompanied his parents to their prairie farm in Buffalo county, Nebraska, was sent to school in a sod house, and though it contrasted to what he had known in Michigan the boy made the best of his advantages. This was in 1881, when the conditions of life and education were far different from those of the present day. On the homestead twelve miles north of Kearney, Chenia Newberry grew to early manhood, enured to the hardships of frontier life which held no fears for him nor daunted his spirit. Until the age of seventeen he remained on the farm, then determined to seek a commercial career. The youth found employment in a hardware store in Ravenna in the northern part of Buffalo county where he laid the foundation for his subsequent commercial career, which reads almost like a fairy story, as few men achieve such great success within such a short time. In 1888, Mr. Newberry came to Alliance to found what is today one of the large, important, and interesting industrial enterprises of this city and Box Butte county, and this publication gives special recognition to this representative corporation, for in the upbuilding of the business has been exemplified the splendid energy and initiative ability of its founder, who has made of his individual success a medium of leverage for the uplifting of civic and material prosperity in his home city and county. Of the inception and growth of the business founded by Mr. Newberry in Alliance, a brief record will be given.
br The present enterprise had a humble beginning, Mr. Newberry first established himself with a hardware stock in connection with which he ran a tin shop; his business grew rapidly, by leaps and bounds; within six years after coming here he found it necessary to build a large structure known as the Glenn Miller building with floor space twenty-five by sixty-four feet; this soon was too small so the building was extended back at the rear for greater floor space. Then followed a tin shop built in 1898, and two years later he erected a brick warehouse of practically the same size near the railroad, but the growing business demanded still larger quarters to house the various departments. To accommodate these a large three-story and basement structure was erected on Fourth street between Box Butte and Laramie avenues, which is entirely given over to the wholesale business, which has expanded to such proportions that at present Mr. Newberry has three salesmen on the road covering a large territory which includes western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and western South Dakota. Five years ago the retail business also was established in a new home; this fine building covers a ground space of fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, is built of brick and fire proof. From basement to roof it is filled with the finest goods of the hardware trade. The basement is used for storage; the main floor for retail trade; the second floor is at present used as a sample room for display of goods; while an up-to-date harness factory with the latest designed machines for this work has been installed on the third floor. Fifty men are on the payroll of the Newberry Company which amounts to over $8,000 a month, which gives some slight idea of the immense amount of business transacted within a year.
Mr. Newberry is progressive in policy which implies up-to-date service to all his customers, and his equipment has all the modern facilities for this purpose. His various establishments are a source of pride to the city of his adoption and its many residents. In other words, "He has put Alliance on the map." Today this man is one of the best known residents of the northwestern section of our great commonwealth, because of his own reputation as a keen, shrewd, farsighted man and a wholesaler; he is full of life and energy which is well displayed in his business houses for he is the busiest one of the fifty or mere men to be found on the premises every working day, putting in many more hours at his desk than any of his many employes.
July 23, 1893, Mr. Newberry married Miss Nellie Brennan, the daughter of Martin and May (Fitzgerald) Brennan; the latter being a native of Michigan. Mrs. Newberry was the sixth oldest in a family of twelve children, consisting of ten boys and two girls. There are five living children in the Newberry family: May, the wife of Frank Abegg, the cashier of the First National Bank of Alliance; Norman M., who graduated from the high school and then engaged in business with his father; Agnes, a student at St. Agnes Academy, of Alliance; Helen, also attending the same school, and Master Bill, a sturdy boy of eight. While Mr. Newberry is interested in all movements for the civic and public uplift of the community, he has been far too busy with the many responsibilities of his business to take public office, believing the man best fitted to serve should be elected, and votes with this idea in mind. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen and Knights of Columbus.
Source: History of Western Nebraska and Its People; Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux Counties. A Group Often Called The Panhandle of Nebraska, 1921 -
The business career of Chenia A. Newberry has been significantly characterized by courage, self-reliance, progressiveness. His unchangable purpose, high integrity have won the confidence and esteem so essential in the important mercantile enterprise to which he has devoted his attention and energies, and through which he has gained high standing in the financial circles of western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and South Dakota. During practically all his business career Mr. Newberry has been associated with the hardware business and no other vouchers are needed to attest his success than the substantial establishments of which he is the owner in Alliance. As one of the representative business men and progressive public spirited citizens of Box Butte county, he merits specific recognition in this publication of the great commonwealth of Nebraska and its counties.
Chenia A. Newberry is a Wolverine, born in New Baltimore, Michigan, April 9, 1869, the son of Norman and Fannie (Morris) Newberry, the former having been a farmer. Chenia was the youngest of two children, as he had one sister. The boy passed his childhood and early youth on farms, acquiring the rudiments of an education by attending the common schools of Michigan in the winter time; and after he accompanied his parents to their prairie farm in Buffalo county, Nebraska, was sent to school in a sod house, and though it contrasted to what he had known in Michigan the boy made the best of his advantages. This was in 1881, when the conditions of life and education were far different from those of the present day. On the homestead twelve miles north of Kearney, Chenia Newberry grew to early manhood, enured to the hardships of frontier life which held no fears for him nor daunted his spirit. Until the age of seventeen he remained on the farm, then determined to seek a commercial career. The youth found employment in a hardware store in Ravenna in the northern part of Buffalo county where he laid the foundation for his subsequent commercial career, which reads almost like a fairy story, as few men achieve such great success within such a short time. In 1888, Mr. Newberry came to Alliance to found what is today one of the large, important, and interesting industrial enterprises of this city and Box Butte county, and this publication gives special recognition to this representative corporation, for in the upbuilding of the business has been exemplified the splendid energy and initiative ability of its founder, who has made of his individual success a medium of leverage for the uplifting of civic and material prosperity in his home city and county. Of the inception and growth of the business founded by Mr. Newberry in Alliance, a brief record will be given.
br The present enterprise had a humble beginning, Mr. Newberry first established himself with a hardware stock in connection with which he ran a tin shop; his business grew rapidly, by leaps and bounds; within six years after coming here he found it necessary to build a large structure known as the Glenn Miller building with floor space twenty-five by sixty-four feet; this soon was too small so the building was extended back at the rear for greater floor space. Then followed a tin shop built in 1898, and two years later he erected a brick warehouse of practically the same size near the railroad, but the growing business demanded still larger quarters to house the various departments. To accommodate these a large three-story and basement structure was erected on Fourth street between Box Butte and Laramie avenues, which is entirely given over to the wholesale business, which has expanded to such proportions that at present Mr. Newberry has three salesmen on the road covering a large territory which includes western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and western South Dakota. Five years ago the retail business also was established in a new home; this fine building covers a ground space of fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, is built of brick and fire proof. From basement to roof it is filled with the finest goods of the hardware trade. The basement is used for storage; the main floor for retail trade; the second floor is at present used as a sample room for display of goods; while an up-to-date harness factory with the latest designed machines for this work has been installed on the third floor. Fifty men are on the payroll of the Newberry Company which amounts to over $8,000 a month, which gives some slight idea of the immense amount of business transacted within a year.
Mr. Newberry is progressive in policy which implies up-to-date service to all his customers, and his equipment has all the modern facilities for this purpose. His various establishments are a source of pride to the city of his adoption and its many residents. In other words, "He has put Alliance on the map." Today this man is one of the best known residents of the northwestern section of our great commonwealth, because of his own reputation as a keen, shrewd, farsighted man and a wholesaler; he is full of life and energy which is well displayed in his business houses for he is the busiest one of the fifty or mere men to be found on the premises every working day, putting in many more hours at his desk than any of his many employes.
July 23, 1893, Mr. Newberry married Miss Nellie Brennan, the daughter of Martin and May (Fitzgerald) Brennan; the latter being a native of Michigan. Mrs. Newberry was the sixth oldest in a family of twelve children, consisting of ten boys and two girls. There are five living children in the Newberry family: May, the wife of Frank Abegg, the cashier of the First National Bank of Alliance; Norman M., who graduated from the high school and then engaged in business with his father; Agnes, a student at St. Agnes Academy, of Alliance; Helen, also attending the same school, and Master Bill, a sturdy boy of eight. While Mr. Newberry is interested in all movements for the civic and public uplift of the community, he has been far too busy with the many responsibilities of his business to take public office, believing the man best fitted to serve should be elected, and votes with this idea in mind. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen and Knights of Columbus.
Source: History of Western Nebraska and Its People; Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux Counties. A Group Often Called The Panhandle of Nebraska, 1921 -
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