F. E. Newbury

NEWBURY, PIERCE

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 21:02:25

F. E. Newbury, who succeeded Mr. Frank Jones as proprietor of the Jones Hotel in Bristow, on March 16, 1881, was born in Kenosha county, Wisconsin, January, 1845, where he was brought up. His father, Henry A. Newbury, still resides on the farm where he settled when Wisconsin was still a territory. Mr. Newbury was a soldier in the army during the war; enlisting in Company G, Forty-third Wisconsin Infantry, in 1864, and serving until the close of the struggle. He has been a resident of this county since 1867, settling on a farm on section 19, which he still owns. His wife was Sophia Pierce, a daughter of Carleton Pierce, of Kenosha county, Wisconsin, where she was born. They have two children – Henry and Floyd. Mr. Newbury keeps a good hotel, and is a popular landlord.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 773