author
Arthur Newcomb
b. 1873
A Wisconsin-born editor and writer, he worked closely with Katherine M. H. Blackford on early 20th-century books about character analysis, employment, and self-improvement. He also wrote a later biography of the religious leader John Alexander Dowie.
1 Audiobook
Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life
by Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger) Blackford, Arthur Newcomb
About the author
Arthur Newcomb was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on June 21, 1873. Reference sources and library records identify him as a writer and editor, and one biographical profile says he studied at Ripon Preparatory School and graduated from Ripon College in 1896.
He is best known as the collaborator and later husband of Katherine M. H. Blackford. Together they were credited on books including Analyzing Character, The Job, the Man, the Boss, and Reading Character at Sight, works that reflect the era's strong interest in character reading, vocational guidance, and business efficiency. Accounts of his career also describe him as director of the Blackford School of Character Analysis in New York City and as an editor for business publications.
Newcomb also wrote Dowie, Anointed of the Lord, a 1930 book about John Alexander Dowie. Clear biographical detail about his later life is limited in the sources reviewed, but genealogical and reference records place his death in 1948.