Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Hon. Newton J. Temple

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Hon. Newton J. Temple, a very prominent attorney of Eureka Springs, 
was born in Winchester, Tenn., May 16, 1830. He is a son of Addison 
and Nancy (Waggoner) Temple, both natives of Tennessee. Addison Temple 
is now living in Franklin County. Tenn. He has always been engaged in 
farming, and also in blacksmithing. His wife died about 1868. Newton 
J. Temple was reared on his father' farm, and secured a common-school
education. When eighteen years of age he began reading law in the 
office of Collier & Carter, in Winchester, Tenn. There he was first 
admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession until 1856, when he 
removed to Pine Bluff, Ark., but after six months' practice there he 
removed to Benton, Ark., and remained one year. Thence he removed to 
Paraclifta, Ark. In 1860 he was elected prosecuting attorney for seven 
counties, and held the office until 1864, during which time he resided 
at Paraclifta. In 1864 he went back to Tennessee, and remained until 
the close of the war, when he removed to Fort Smith. Soon after he was 
appointed by the governor prosecuting attorney for that district, and 
held the office until 1867. In 1867 he went to Knoxville, Tenn., and 
practiced law with Oliver P. Temple till 1868, when he was appointed 
by Gov. Brownlow attorney-general of the judicial district in which 
Winchester, his old home, is situated. After holding this office one 
year he resigned, and came to Fort Smith, Ark., and resumed the 
practice of his profession. Soon after he was appointed prosecuting 
attorney by Gov. Clayton, and held the position until he resigned. On 
June 19, 1872, he was appointed United States District Attorney by 
Gen. Grant, but three years later he resigned this position, and went 
to California, where he remained three or four years. In 1879 he 
located in Topeka, Kas., and in 1880 he went to Eureka Springs, Ark. 
This has since been his stopping place, with the exception of two 
years spent in Fort Worth, Tex. His wife was Angelette McIntosh, a 
native of Mississippi. They are the parents of one daughter, Maudie.