New Diamond Crown Cigar Honors Founder of J.C. Newman

(Cigar Aficionado) He was diminutive and driven, and in 1895 J.C. Newman created a little cigar company in Cleveland, Ohio that he named after himself. His first order was modest—500 cigars that he rolled himself for the family grocer, an order secured by his mother. From that humble beginning came the J.C. Newman Cigar Co., which is still in business today, 115 years and four generations later.
Newman’s grandchildren Eric and Bobby have released a cigar named for him, the Diamond Crown Julius Caeser. Continued