JC Newman and America’s Oldest Family-Owned Cigar Company
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, when Julius Caesar Newman came to America, he was a teenager trying to make a living by learning a trade that allowed him to work with his hands and support his family. When the chance came to go out on his own, he took it and built a business that would grow into a lasting enterprise.
Today, the J.C. Newman Cigar Company is still run by his family. As part of our American Dreamers series, Drew Newman shares how his family’s company managed to endure when so many others disappeared.
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| 1:11.8 | Today's story is about the oldest family-owned premium cigar company in the United States. |
| 1:18.4 | Here's Drew Newman with the story. |
| 1:21.3 | One of the things I really love about premium cigars is that they tend to bring people together. Today we live in such a |
| 1:30.9 | divisive world with people having very strong feelings about lots of issues and our country is |
| 1:38.0 | pretty divided. But cigars, it seems, are one of the few things that bring people together. |
| 1:45.0 | It doesn't matter your age, your race, your gender, the language you're speaking, your income, your job or anything. |
| 1:53.0 | If you enjoy a cigar, we can sit down together and we're friends. |
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