Henry Byron Newson

Henry Byron Newson (1860 to 1910) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas who published on projective transformations. His books include Continuous groups of projective transformations treated synthetically and The five types of projective transformations of the plane, both from 1895. He married the mathematician Mary Frances Winston in Chicago on 21 July 1900, and after the marriage he published Graphic Algebra for Secondary Schools in 1905 and Theory of collineations in 1911. The couple had three children, Caroline born in 1901, Josephine born in 1903 and Henry born in 1909. Newson had a history of heart problems, which had left him unable to obtain insurance, and he died following a heart attack in 1910, a few months before he would have qualified for a pension, which left his widow with no income and three young children to bring up.