FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Prominent North Dakota businessman Harold Newman has died.
Newman was the founder of Newman Signs, a successful highway sign and billboard business based in Jamestown. A statement released Thursday by the company gave no details of his death.
Newman got the idea for the company after he started painting signs in his mother-in-law’s garage to pay for college tuition. The Mayville native started Newman Signs in Jamestown in 1956. It later expanded to Fargo and Roswell, N.M.
Newman gave North Dakota State University $1.5 million in 1998 to complete a financing package for a new baseball stadium. Newman Outdoor Field is now the home to NDSU and the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks of the independent American Association.
The statement says funeral services for Newman have not been set.
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