Person:Reuben Newton (5)

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Reuben NEWTON; b. Town of Mansfield, Cattaraugus County, NY to Jesse and Louisa (PUDDY) NEWTON; d. Missouri Valley, IA. Sarah L. (DAVIS) NEWTON; b. Little Valley, NY to E.J and Fannie (SHANNON) DAVIS. Both bur Rose Hill Cem, Missouri Valley, IA

NEWTON - Reuben NEWTON, a lumber dealer at Missouri Valley, has been identified with the interests of Harrison County, since August, 1868. He was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Our subject's father and mother reared a family of seven children, he being the sixth. There were five sons and two daughters, all living. The father died in 1849 and the mother still resides in Salamanca, N. Y. Our subject received his education in the district schools of his native county, and when twelve years of age worked on a farm at $7 per month, and in 1860, when he was fourteen years of age, he moved to Sycamore, Ill., and remained two year, after which he located at Boone, Iowa, where he remained until 1867, and came from there to Missouri Valley. He was the first watchman for the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad, and remained at Missouri Valley about two months, and then went to River Sioux, remaining with the company for fourteen years. He began studying telegraphy at Boone, and completed his course at River Sioux, at which place he handled lumber in connection with his railroad work. In 1883 he moved to Missouri Valley, where he established his present lumber business. Politically our subject is a radical Republican. While at Little Sioux he was School Treasurer for that township for several years. He is a member of the Masonic order, was the first Master Mason in the Little Sioux Lodge, and belongs to Valley Chapter of that order.

Our subject was united in marriage July 6, 1868, to Sarah L. DAVIS, born in Little Valley, N. Y. She was the daughter of E. J. DAVIS, and Fannie (SHANNON) DAVIS, who moved to Harrison County in 1870. The father died in 1876 and the mother is now living at River Sioux. Mr. and Mrs. NEWTON are the parents of two sons--Jesse D., born May 5, 1872, and Harry R., December 15, 1880.

Mrs. NEWTON is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Missouri Valley. During the residence of Mr. NEWTON in Harrison County, he has made many friends, who value him in a business point of view, as well as socially, because of his uprightness and fair dealing. A portrait of this man very appropriately finds a place in this volume.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 583, 584

GEORGE NEWTON (1840 - BET 1900 & 1910) By Myron L. Newton, Jr.