Person:Charles Newton (33)

According to E. Leonard, in The Newton Genealogy (de Pere, Wisc., 1915)

CHARLES MARSHALL NEWTON* (Marshall', Marshall, MarshalP, Obediah Thomas^ John=, Richard'), son of Marshall and Nancy (Tufts) Newton of Newfane, Vt., was bom there, October 31, 1846, and died at his home in Orlando, Fla., February 11, 1911. He married at Middletowni, Conn., March 24. 1874, Mary Catherine Boardman, daughter of Timothy and Julia (Stratton) Boardman of Middletown, Conn. She was born at Berlin, Conn., May 27, 1849. Mr. Newton was a soldier in the Civil War. His two older brothers having enlisted in 1860 and 1861, his patriotic impulses were stirred, and when nearly seventeen years old he, too, enlisted, July 6, 1863, for three years, private in Company L, First Vermont Heavy Artillery, and served in the Army of the Potomac. He was wounded in 1864. June 2, 1865, he was promoted Corporal; and transferred to Company C, Eleventh Vermont Infantry, June 24, 1865; mustered out August 25, 1865, as Sergeant. He is a member of the G. A. R. After the war he held a clerkship under the Boston and Albany R. R. at Springfield and Brookfield till 1870, then clerk in mercantile houses for two years. In October, 1872, Mr. Newton was in business for himself, a dealer in men's furnishing goods at Middletown, Conn.; a member of its Common Council. In 1898 he removed with his family to Orlando, Fla., where he has a pineapple and orange plantation; was living in 1912.