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Howard Benjamin Newton
b.22 Feb 1837 Andover, Oxford, Maine, United States
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m. 10 Jan 1833
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m. 9 Oct 1865
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According to E. Leonard, in The Newton Genealogy (de Pere, Wisc., 1915) HOWARD BENJAMIN NEWTON (Benjamin T., Nathan, Joshua, Jr., Joshua, Zachariah, Jolm=, EichaixP), son of Benjamin Thorla and Clarine (Dunn) Newton of Andover, Maine, was born there February 22, 1837, and was living in 1908. He married at Noble, Ohio, October 9, 1805. Villinda Dye, born at Noble, Ohio, March 18, 1844, died at Spring Hill, Kans., September 20, 1893, daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Westcott) Dye of Noble, Ohio. Howard B. Newton left Andover, Maine, in the spring of 1858; going to Ohio, December 2, 1860. He was a soldier of the Civil War, serving three years and two months. He enlisted in 1862 in General Garfield's regiment—that is, in Company D, Fortieth Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry. After the war he returned to Sarahville, Ohio, visiting Andover, Maine, in 1865; he moved to Spring Hill, Kans., November 31, 1869. He is a farmer. He contracted a stomach trouble in the army from which he now suffers. |