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Joan Newton Cuneo
Joan Newton Cuneo (July 22, 1876, Holyoke, Massachusetts – March 24, 1934, Ontonagon, Michigan) was an American racing driver.〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77524185〕 She first became famous as a daring automobilist in 1905, after her marriage to Andrew Cuneo in 1898 and the birth of her two children, Antonio (A. Newton Cuneo (1899) and Maddalena (Dolly) Cuneo(1901. Between 1905 and 1912 she would enjoy national celebrity because of her success as a daring racer willing to compete against all comers, both male and female. She also became a strong advocate for women drivers and the Good Roads Movement. Unfortunately after women were banned from organized racing, she was no longer able to race and was reduced to setting women's speed records. After her husband's scandalous involvement with a showgirl, they divorced. Joan Cuneo then moved away from New York City where she had lived with her husband and children,first to Vermont and then to the upper peninsula of Michigan. There she married James Francis Sickman, her childhood sweetheart, shortly before her death. Until recently, she had received only a brief mention in automotive history "as the woman who got women banned from racing."〔
== Early life ==
She was the last of four daughters born to Leila Vulte and John Carter Newton in Holyoke Massachusetts. Her parents were part of the large and successful Newton family who owned and developed land in Holyoke and Whitingham, Vermont. Her father, a self-made millionaire. indulged his youngest daughter Joan, treating her more like a son. He allowed her to take part in activities not considered proper for a young Victorian girl, including driving a steam train and a six horse team. Joan enjoyed outdoor life and was an expert horsewoman and bicyclist. However, her parents realized that Joan needed to curb her tomboy tendencies and sent her off to several boarding schools to learn the accomplishments necessary for a Victorian lady. In 1898, Joan Carter Newton married Andrew Cuneo, the wealthy adopted son of millionaire banker Antonio Cuneo. It is unlikely that Joan who grew up in Holyoke knew Andrew Cuneo, the son of an Italian immigrant from the New York ghetto, was well acquainted with her husband before their marriage. However, the marriage at least in its early years was happy and successful. The couple had two children, Antonio and Maddalena, in the first three years of their marriage. However, their relationship would gradually change when Andrew, who had no interest in automobiles, bought his wife a little steam car, a 1902 Locomobile. This would be the beginning of her life long love of driving an automobile fast.〔Nystrom, Elsa A. ''Mad for Speed, the racing life of Joan Newton Cuneo'' (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2013)〕〔http://Ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db+1900usfedcen%2c&rank+0&gfsn+joa, 9/21/09〕
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