Thomas Wallace Newcomb (1797-1870)
The following biography is (slightly revised) from Bethuel M. Newcomb’s 1923 Andrew Newcomb and His Descendants.
Mr. Newcomb resided upon his father’s farm at Pittstown, inheriting it after his father’s death. Active, untiring, and well-informed, he engaged at an early date in mercantile pursuits. In 1840 he sold his farm and settled at Troy, where he established an extensive and lucrative trade in the drug business. In 1842 he move to Lansingburgh; in 1848 to Albany, New York, where he retired from business with a competence. In business he was prompt, accurate and of scrupulous and unswerving integrity. Up to the time of his death he enjoyed the respect and esteem of all who knew him.
He was a kind and affectionate husband and father, refined and delicate in his feelings, thoroughly domestic in his tastes, unassuming, kind-hearted, delighting in the retiracy of a happy home. A patriarch among his unusually large family, he bore the weight of years with such vivacity and such a spirit of youth that he seemed scarcely advanced beyond the prime of life. Of firm religious conviction and equally settled in his political opinions, he respected the views and sentiments of others, and while listening with patience, could refute with judgment.