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unusual facts about J.J. Newberry


J.J. Newberry

Poet Donald Hall wrote a poem, "Beans and Franks," about the closing of a J.J. Newberry store in Franklin, New Hampshire.


Michigan Car Company

The Michigan Car Company was organized in 1864 by John S. Newberry (b. 1826) and James McMillan (b. 1838) to manufacture railroad cars for the Union Army.

Tidewater goby

The genus name translates as "true cycloid goby", referring to the scales, while the species epithet is in honor of J. S. Newberry.


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