Newcomer, John B (pseu: John T Hall) 1875-14.jul.1954 USA ?, ? - NY, New York
1897-1913 as John T Hall Music Co. music publisher in New York City, 1.jan.1905 the capital was $25000 and the directors were Herman L Roth and Samuel P Epstein and the president John B Newcomer, he was also a traveling theatre manager producing musical plays, 12.oct.1903 at the Grand Theatre in Atlanta Georgia, [23.apr.1905 Suzette Hall daughter of Mrs. John T Hall of New York was bridemaid on a wedding in the Hall family], [1906 Mrs. John T Hall and the Misses Elsie and Katharine occupied their town house at 106 East 13th Street in New York City], 13.nov.1914 he was arrested and 20.nov.1915 sentenced to two years imprisonment in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta Georgia for organizing a fraudulent 'prize song contest' and defrauding 1500 amateur poets by dropping them from the correspondence list after they had paid a fee, his partner Victor Greene of the Knickerbocker Harmony Studios who induced the 6000 'winning' poets to pay $10 to have the poem set to music was acquitted

[? stepson of John T Hall who died Winter 1895/1896 in New York City and son of Mrs. John T Hall who organized the final performance of her Tuesday Evenings dancing class 7.apr.1896 at the large ballroom at Sherry's New York City]