Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Daniel Smith NEWHALL
Daniel worked first in the sugar refining company, McKean, Newhall and Borie, founded by his father Thomas. After 1882 he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as assistant Secretary and Purchasing Agent. He and his brothers Robert, Charles, George And Walter, founded the Young America Cricket Club, the first cricket club in Philadelphia. Later on, he and his borthers Robert, Charles and George, plus seven members of the younger generation (Walter, Cushman, David, William Price, Morton, Thomas
and Daniel) formed the Newhall Cricket Eleven, which did a tour of England about 1903, and did very well. They played against W.G.Grace, among others. (It was on this tour that William Price Newhall, having " looked on the wine when it was red" went out into Piccadilly Circus in full evening dress-tails, white tie and top hat- and held up traffic for some time. History does not say what happened after that.) Daniel Newhall was working in his yard raking leaves one afternoon when a young man came
to call on one of his daughters. The young man was driving a handsome buggy and he called to Daniel, "Here my good man, hold this horse for a minute". Daniel came meekly over and held the horse; when the young man came out he handed Daniel a dime, which was politely accepted and pocketed while the daughter pretended she'd never seen her father before. perhaps that particular young man never came back. Daniel Newhall bred and raced pidgeons and he and George V. Cresson together owned the first
carrier pidgeon in the US to complete a 500 mile return flight. He kept a small pidgeon loft on the roof of Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, from which he sent out birds on express trains to be released at
different places. EGF
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