She served as Superintendent of Jails and Prisons, and also of flower mission work for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); and as Vice-president General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

In 1883, at the request of Bishop Isaac William Wiley, of the MEC, she went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and presented the Mormon issue to the National Home Missionary Society.

She acted as chair of a committee appointed to consider the plan of founding a home for Mormon women, who wish to escape from polygamy, to be sustained by the society.

[4][2] She returned home to proceed to Utah in behalf of the society, but in a public meeting called in Lincoln, she fell from a platform and was seriously injured, which thwarted her plans.

In the cities of every northern and several of the southern States, she spoke from pulpit and platform on temperance, Mormonism, and the social purity movement.

[4] Newman was connected officially with various other benevolent and charitable organizations, and was active in them all despite the fact that, as the result of several serious accidents, she was scarcely ever free from pain and weakness.

In January 1890, on the way to Salt Lake City, she met with an accident which endangered her life for two and half years, and from which she slowly convalesced.

[4] Newman was an extensive traveler, and after a year in Europe, Egypt and Palestine, 1896–1897, with her daughter, she gave a series of lectures on themes associated with the tour.

[1][4][2] In 1859, she married David Newman, a dry goods merchant of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and, on August 5, 1859, moved there.