Arthur S. Newman – Soil Scientist
Arthur S. Newman, 84, an Agriculture Department soil scientist who was responsible for research grants to states and coordinated cooperative soil and water science programs with the Soviet Union and Spain, died of colon caner Aug. 28 at his Gaithersburg home.
Dr. Newman was a native of Fargo, N.D., and a graduate of North Dakota State University. He received master’s and doctoral degrees in soil bacteriology from Iowa State University.
He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and worked on a biological warfare program at Fort Detrick in Frederick. He stayed on there after the war as a civilian scientist and became branch chief in the crops division.
He joined Agriculture’s Cooperate State Research Service in 1957. He was awarded the department’s Superior Service Award and retired in 1979. He was a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Service Society.
Dr. Newman was a member of the vestry and an usher at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Jean Newman of Gaithersburg; four daughters, Barbara Newman Butcher of Mount Sinai, N.Y., Janice Newman of New York, Dr. Kathie Newman of Granger, Ind., and Dr. Andrea Newman of Vienna; and four grandsons.
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Marriages: Arthur S. Newman. 30, Fargo, N. D., and Jean R. Clawson, 26, Collegeville, Pa.
— The News from Frederick (Maryland), Tuesday, October 15, 1946.