Clyde Newcomb enrolled at Ripon College, Ripon, WI, in 1924 and then attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1927 studying chemical engineering. He was first employed by Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Chicago where his father was an engineer. Clyde also owned and operated Newcomb Dairy, a milk bottling business in Glen Ellyn, IL, for a time while attending college. However, farming in Wisconsin was his lifelong ambition, so he left his job in Chicago and bought a small farm near Embarrass, WI. He farmed and reared his family through the depression and World War II, and still found time to install telephone systems in Alaska for the Canol Project. He also became involved with the Rural Electrification Association (REA), and supervised the building of power lines through Arkansas and Wisconsin and brought electricity to farm families for the first time. When the war ended in Africa he was hired to help build electric power generation and distribution systems in Saudi Arabia, and then, in 1947, did the same on war-torn Guam in the Mariana Islands. He moved his family to a new farm near Shawano, WI, in 1949, but continued to work at various out-of-state jobs, including the Du Pont atomic bomb plant near Atlanta, GA, during the early 1950's. In 1954 he moved his family once again to a larger farm near Wittenberg, WI. He tried to work the farm with his sons, but in 1956 was asked by the joint construction firm, Drake-Merritt, to assume the position of Project Manager for the building of Goose Air Force Base in Labrador, Canada. At the completion of the project he accepted civil engineering positions with the US Air Force in Saigon, Viet Nam; Thule AFB, Greenland; Anderson AFB, Guam; and later was named Directorate of SAC Civil Engineering at SAC Headquarters, Offutt AFB, NB. He finished his career in Seoul, Korea, where at the age of 62, became divorced, remarried a Korean national, and had a daughter. He retired with his new family in Cabool, Missouri, where he stayed until his death in 1993. His ashes were scattered in a lake near the resort area of Branson, MO.