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Charles Frank Newman was born on 5 Nov 1868 in Juda, Wisconsin. He married Fannie Tilley in 1890. Charlie was widowed in 1936 and remarried in 1939 to Mary Martin.

Charlie was a Major League Baseball outfielder, who played professional baseball in the 1890s. He held the positions of outfielder and first baseman. He bat and threw right handed.

He then served as chief of police in Janesville, Wisconsin from 1921 to 1937. He moved to California in 1938 and died on 23 Nov 1947 in San Diego, California. He was buried in Albany, Wisconsin.

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