REV. EPHRAIM HOLLAND NEWTON7 (Marshall6, Jr., Marshall5, Obediah4, Thomas3, John2, Richard1), son of Marshall, Jr., and Lydia (Newton) Newton of Shrewsbury, Mass., and Newfane, Windham County, Vt., was born at Newfane, Vt. [at the home of his aunt, and was given the name of her husband], June 13, 1787. He died at Coila, a village in the town of Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y.. October 26, 1864. Burial beside his wife in Woodlands Cemetery, at Cambridge, N. Y.
He married at Shoreham, Vt., January 29, 1815, Huldah Chipman, eldest daughter of General Timothy Fuller and Polly (Smith) Chipman* of Shoreham, Vt., where she was born May 14, 1789. She died at Jackson, N. Y., November 26, 1853. An excellent and devout woman. She was a lineal descendant from John Howland of the Mayflower.
The following sketch of this excellent man I copy from the History of Newfane, Vt., but have very much condensed:
"He spent his early youth in labor with his father in the blacksmith's shop. He had a special fondness even then for books, and determined to acquire something more than a common school education, and even as he worked his book lying near enabled him to commit much to memory. At nineteen he taught school in Marlborough, Vt., with success. He fitted for college at the school in Newfane, and entered Middlebury College, October 6, 1806. April, 1810, he united with the Congregational church at Middlebury; entered Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary, November, 1810; completed the course 1813, and was licensed to preach. His first labors were at Marlborough, Vt. On March 16, 1814, was ordained and installed over that church, where he continued till January 1, 1833 -- a successful ministry, when many were added to the church. He became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Glens Falls, N. Y., February 28, 1833, continuing there about three and one half years. November, 1836, to August, 1813, he was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cambridge, N. Y. In July, 1843, he was elected principal of Cambridge Washington Academy, which post he filled acceptably until August, 1848. Having a fondness for natural science. Dr. Newton early in life gave his attention to mineralogy and geology. He gathered about 10,000 specimens, which in 1857 he presented to the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass. His library of about 1,000 volumes he presented to Middlebury College. 1860 to l862, he occupied the pulpit at Marlborough, Vt., -- the one where his labors began. About this time he was elected to the State Legislature of Vermont. While in this service he was attacked with a severe fit of sickness, from which he never wholly recovered.
"From his Alma Mater he received the degree of D.D. He was a man of great industry. In business and as an accountant, he was proverbially accurate. He was a devoted and faithful minister of Christ. His life was filled with usefulness. In the 'Old' and 'New School' controversy, he espoused the 'Old School' side. He was spare in person, rather tall, of a grave countenance, sometimes wearing a shade of sadness. But he was cheerful and pleasant in conversation and intercourse, with a vein of humor."
Mr. Newton's children were all born at Marlborough, Vt. The house which he built there in 1814, and in which all of his children were born, is still standing. 1912.