Newell, George W.

NEWELL, LOVERIDGE, BROWN, FINERTY, RUSH, PARKER, WILLARD, BEBOUT, HOLLAND, BURDETT, BIXBY, WHITE, BROCK, MILLS, GRAY, PAULSON, EATON, JENSMA

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Date: 8/13/2009 at 13:35:22

George W. Newell is a representative and prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Palo Alto Township. He owns one hundred and eighty-five acres of rich and valuable land on section 1. All is under a high state of cultivation and yields to the owner a golden tribute. There are also good improvements upon the place, every thing is neat and orderly, and the well-tilled fields and thrift appearance indicate the careful supervision of the owner.

Mr. Newell is a native of the Buckeye State. He was born in Knox County, April 28, 1845, and is a son of Hugh and Sarah (Loveridge) Newell, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of New Jersey. Our subject is the eldest surviving child. He was reared to manhood in his parents' home in the county of his nativity, and is a representative of two early families of Knox County, for his grandparents on both sides there located in pioneer days. He was reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier and aided in the development of the farm, hauling saw logs to the mill with two yoke of oxen and performing such other work as fell to the lot of their being a pioneer home. His education was acquired in the public schools, and by reading and observation he has ever kept well informed on topics of general interest. Throughout his entire life he has carried on agricultural pursuits, with the exception of a year and a half, when he was engaged in operating a portable sawmill.

On the 12th of October 1875, Mr. Newell was married to Miss Amanda Brown, also a native of Knox County, Ohio, born in 1847 and a daughter of Garrett Brown of that county. Their union has been blessed with a family of six children, as follows: Nora, Clifton D., Clayton E., George M., Bessie and Bertha E.

In the spring of 1876, Mr. Newell came with his family to Jasper County and spent the year after his arrival in Newton. Since that time he has engaged in farming. For several years he operated rented land in Sherman Township, and then removed to Mariposa Township, where he continued farming for a number of years. In 1890 he came to Palo Alto Township, where he has once made his home upon the farm described at the beginning of this notice.

We find in Mr. Newell a self-made man who started out in life empty-handed, with no capital save a young man's bright hope of the future and a determination to succeed. He possesses energy and industry, and by his well-directed efforts he has carried out his determination and won prosperity. In polities he is independent, supporting the man whom be thinks best qualified for the office, regardless of party affiliations. He and his wife both belong to the Methodist Protestant Church of Hixon Grove, and Mr. Newell is now serving as Trustee of the same. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA Page 181
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The subject of this sketch, who bore the illustrious name of George Washington Newell, was born April 28, 1845, near Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. He was the second child born to Hugh and Sarah (Lovridge) Newell. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of Ohio. The father died in Ohio in 1859, at the age of forty-five years, when the boy George was only thirteen years old. The mother lived to attain her eighty-first birthday, dying in 1902 in Ohio.

Mr. Newell was one of eight children, five of whom are still living, the eldest, Anna, dying at the age of fifteen years; Mary Newell, who married Samuel Finerty, now deceased, in 1909; Margaret, who married Miller Rush; John, who married Emma J. Parker; and Clara, the youngest child, who became the wife of S. Willard, all live in Knox County, Ohio, the home of their birth; Olive, who married Aaron Bebout, lives at Gatesville, Texas, and Thomas Newell lives in Texas, near Sonora.

On the 12th day of October 1875, Mr. Newell was united in marriage to Amanda Brown, daughter of Garrett and Mary (Holland) Brown, her father being a native of Maryland and her mother a native of West Virginia. She was one of nine children, whose names are: James U., who died in the army in 1864, enlisting in Ohio; Ann E., who married Caleb Burdett, and lives near Poplar Springs, Maryland; Reason H., who married Harriet Bixby, and, who died in Ohio; Joanna V., who married Robert White, and died in Mount Vernon, Ohio; Mary L. married Frank Brock, of Mt. Vernon; William M., who married Nancy J. Mills, lives in Union County, Iowa; Henry M., unmarried, and Frank, who married Ethel Gray.

Mrs. Newell's father died in 1865, at the age of sixty-five years, in Ohio, where also her mother died in 1896, at the age of eighty-six. In March 1876, soon after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Newell, they removed from Ohio to Iowa. For about five years he rented land, not being possessed of capital to buy. But at the end of that time he bought one hundred and forty acres in Kellogg Township, near Rushville. Here he lived for nine years, when he sold it and bought the beautiful home where he lived until his death, consisting of one hundred and eighty-one and one-half acres in Palo Alto Township, paying only thirty-three and one-third dollars per acre for it. The house, which was there when Mr. Newell bought the place, has been moved back and an elegant, commodious house now stands in its place.

To Mr. and Mrs. Newell have been born six children, as follows: Nora I., born August 12, 1876, married to William Starrett, and to this couple have been born three children, William L., George L. and Daniel C. They live in Kellogg Township on a farm; Clifton D., the second child, was born December 31, 1877, married Christina Paulson, and lives in Kellogg Township on a farm and have one little daughter, Dorothy Ruth; Clayton E., born October 10, 1879, living in Palo Alto Township, married Ina Eaton, and they have four children, Iva B., Thelma, Ralph and Rowena A., now living in Gettysburg, South Dakota; George M. Newell, born January 29, 1882, lives in California; Bessie H., born August 31, 1883, married Peter Jensma, lives in Newton Township on a farm, and they have three children, Ethel, Celia Bessie and Wilhelmina; Bertha E., born April 30, 1885, lives at home with her mother.

Mr. Newell was a public-spirited man and a man of sterling worth and of progressive ideas. He was a Democrat, but was not what one would call a fastidious one. He never aspired to public office. At one time he was elected justice of the peace in Mariposa Township, but he refused to serve. He served as school director for five years and for the last fifteen years he had been chairman of the board of trustees of the Methodist Protestant Church of Hixon Grove. Mrs. Newell is also a member of this church. Mr. Newell was called to his final rest on April 21, 1912, honored and beloved by all who knew him. He was a good husband, a loving father and will be remembered for many a year by those near and dear to him. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 832.