GEO. W. NEWTON, PIONEER HERE, PASSES AWAY
George W. Newton, pioneer resident of Bismarck and prominent in legal circles of the state for many years, died this morning at 10:30 at ST. Alexius hospital. Death was due to the infirmities of age. He would have been 90 years old on February 12.
Mr. Newton is survived by three sons and three brothers. Sons are William S. Newton of Bellingham, Wash., George G. Newton, Superior, Wisconsin, and J. H. Newton, Mandan. Brothers are Dr. S. H. Newton of Rouses Point, N. Y., Dr. Jasper Newton, Benson, Vt., and Walter R. Newton of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced, pending the arrival from Roseburg, Wash. of William S. Newton and J. H. Newton and their families. They were on their way to California when word was conveyed to them of the death of Mr. Newton.
George G. Newton is in Bismarck today.
George W. Newton was born at Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, February 12, 1838. He was the son of Silas Whitcomb Newton and Charlotte Amanda Smith, both of English parentage but long settled in New England.
He was educated in the schools of Franklin county and at Thetford Academy, Orange county, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. For two years he was state's attorney of Franklin county, Vt.
In 1883 Mr. Newton came to Bismarck and in the following year began the practice of law, associating himself with Isaac Ross. For some years after this he practiced independently and then associated himself with George Dullam and later with C. L. Young, in the form of Newton, Dullam and Young. He had made his home at St. Alexius hospital for the last three years.
His ability in legal work was recognized by his appointment on the commission for the revision of the legal code and he served the state well as a man of high ideals and marked public spirit, although he never accepted political preferment outside the lines of his profession, except places of honor.
He was a member of the penitentiary board and was appointed by Territorial Governor Mellette as a member of the board of commissioners of public property. This office he held for some years and administered with much fidelity, finally procuring the repeal of the law under which the board existed and assigning the duties to the proper state officials. He was at one time city attorney of Bismarck.
Mr. Newton was married at Highgate, Vt., May 9, 1863, to Mary L. Skeels and three children were born of this union. Mrs. Newton passed away March 27, 1906.
In 1916 Mr. Newton married Mrs. F. Young of Fargo, who died in Bismarck in 1922.
Mr. Newton was a member of the Masonic order.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Friday, February 4, 1927, Page 1.
George W. Newton, pioneer resident of Bismarck and prominent in legal circles of the state for many years, died this morning at 10:30 at ST. Alexius hospital. Death was due to the infirmities of age. He would have been 90 years old on February 12.
Mr. Newton is survived by three sons and three brothers. Sons are William S. Newton of Bellingham, Wash., George G. Newton, Superior, Wisconsin, and J. H. Newton, Mandan. Brothers are Dr. S. H. Newton of Rouses Point, N. Y., Dr. Jasper Newton, Benson, Vt., and Walter R. Newton of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced, pending the arrival from Roseburg, Wash. of William S. Newton and J. H. Newton and their families. They were on their way to California when word was conveyed to them of the death of Mr. Newton.
George G. Newton is in Bismarck today.
George W. Newton was born at Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, February 12, 1838. He was the son of Silas Whitcomb Newton and Charlotte Amanda Smith, both of English parentage but long settled in New England.
He was educated in the schools of Franklin county and at Thetford Academy, Orange county, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. For two years he was state's attorney of Franklin county, Vt.
In 1883 Mr. Newton came to Bismarck and in the following year began the practice of law, associating himself with Isaac Ross. For some years after this he practiced independently and then associated himself with George Dullam and later with C. L. Young, in the form of Newton, Dullam and Young. He had made his home at St. Alexius hospital for the last three years.
His ability in legal work was recognized by his appointment on the commission for the revision of the legal code and he served the state well as a man of high ideals and marked public spirit, although he never accepted political preferment outside the lines of his profession, except places of honor.
He was a member of the penitentiary board and was appointed by Territorial Governor Mellette as a member of the board of commissioners of public property. This office he held for some years and administered with much fidelity, finally procuring the repeal of the law under which the board existed and assigning the duties to the proper state officials. He was at one time city attorney of Bismarck.
Mr. Newton was married at Highgate, Vt., May 9, 1863, to Mary L. Skeels and three children were born of this union. Mrs. Newton passed away March 27, 1906.
In 1916 Mr. Newton married Mrs. F. Young of Fargo, who died in Bismarck in 1922.
Mr. Newton was a member of the Masonic order.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Friday, February 4, 1927, Page 1.
GEO. W. NEWTON, PIONEER HERE, PASSES AWAY
George W. Newton, pioneer resident of Bismarck and prominent in legal circles of the state for many years, died this morning at 10:30 at ST. Alexius hospital. Death was due to the infirmities of age. He would have been 90 years old on February 12.
Mr. Newton is survived by three sons and three brothers. Sons are William S. Newton of Bellingham, Wash., George G. Newton, Superior, Wisconsin, and J. H. Newton, Mandan. Brothers are Dr. S. H. Newton of Rouses Point, N. Y., Dr. Jasper Newton, Benson, Vt., and Walter R. Newton of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced, pending the arrival from Roseburg, Wash. of William S. Newton and J. H. Newton and their families. They were on their way to California when word was conveyed to them of the death of Mr. Newton.
George G. Newton is in Bismarck today.
George W. Newton was born at Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, February 12, 1838. He was the son of Silas Whitcomb Newton and Charlotte Amanda Smith, both of English parentage but long settled in New England.
He was educated in the schools of Franklin county and at Thetford Academy, Orange county, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. For two years he was state's attorney of Franklin county, Vt.
In 1883 Mr. Newton came to Bismarck and in the following year began the practice of law, associating himself with Isaac Ross. For some years after this he practiced independently and then associated himself with George Dullam and later with C. L. Young, in the form of Newton, Dullam and Young. He had made his home at St. Alexius hospital for the last three years.
His ability in legal work was recognized by his appointment on the commission for the revision of the legal code and he served the state well as a man of high ideals and marked public spirit, although he never accepted political preferment outside the lines of his profession, except places of honor.
He was a member of the penitentiary board and was appointed by Territorial Governor Mellette as a member of the board of commissioners of public property. This office he held for some years and administered with much fidelity, finally procuring the repeal of the law under which the board existed and assigning the duties to the proper state officials. He was at one time city attorney of Bismarck.
Mr. Newton was married at Highgate, Vt., May 9, 1863, to Mary L. Skeels and three children were born of this union. Mrs. Newton passed away March 27, 1906.
In 1916 Mr. Newton married Mrs. F. Young of Fargo, who died in Bismarck in 1922.
Mr. Newton was a member of the Masonic order.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Friday, February 4, 1927, Page 1.
George W. Newton, pioneer resident of Bismarck and prominent in legal circles of the state for many years, died this morning at 10:30 at ST. Alexius hospital. Death was due to the infirmities of age. He would have been 90 years old on February 12.
Mr. Newton is survived by three sons and three brothers. Sons are William S. Newton of Bellingham, Wash., George G. Newton, Superior, Wisconsin, and J. H. Newton, Mandan. Brothers are Dr. S. H. Newton of Rouses Point, N. Y., Dr. Jasper Newton, Benson, Vt., and Walter R. Newton of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced, pending the arrival from Roseburg, Wash. of William S. Newton and J. H. Newton and their families. They were on their way to California when word was conveyed to them of the death of Mr. Newton.
George G. Newton is in Bismarck today.
George W. Newton was born at Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, February 12, 1838. He was the son of Silas Whitcomb Newton and Charlotte Amanda Smith, both of English parentage but long settled in New England.
He was educated in the schools of Franklin county and at Thetford Academy, Orange county, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. For two years he was state's attorney of Franklin county, Vt.
In 1883 Mr. Newton came to Bismarck and in the following year began the practice of law, associating himself with Isaac Ross. For some years after this he practiced independently and then associated himself with George Dullam and later with C. L. Young, in the form of Newton, Dullam and Young. He had made his home at St. Alexius hospital for the last three years.
His ability in legal work was recognized by his appointment on the commission for the revision of the legal code and he served the state well as a man of high ideals and marked public spirit, although he never accepted political preferment outside the lines of his profession, except places of honor.
He was a member of the penitentiary board and was appointed by Territorial Governor Mellette as a member of the board of commissioners of public property. This office he held for some years and administered with much fidelity, finally procuring the repeal of the law under which the board existed and assigning the duties to the proper state officials. He was at one time city attorney of Bismarck.
Mr. Newton was married at Highgate, Vt., May 9, 1863, to Mary L. Skeels and three children were born of this union. Mrs. Newton passed away March 27, 1906.
In 1916 Mr. Newton married Mrs. F. Young of Fargo, who died in Bismarck in 1922.
Mr. Newton was a member of the Masonic order.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Friday, February 4, 1927, Page 1.
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