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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

LUTHER B. NEWTON.
    Luther B. Newton, manager at Fort Smith for the Aetna Life Insurance Company
of Hartford, Connecticut, in which connection he has greatly, developed the
interests and business of the company in this state, was born in Gurdon,
Arkansas, on the 13th of May, 1881, his parents being A. W. and Mattie (Bussall)
Newton of Gurdon, where the father engaged in merchandising for many years. The
grandfather in the maternal line was prominently known in Clark county,
Arkansas, where for sixteen years he filled the office of county treasurer, and
he likewise won the rank of captain during his service in the Confederate army.

    Luther B. Newton obtained a high school education in Gurdon, Arkansas, and
starting out upon his business career, turned his attention to the field of
insurance. He subsequently became an agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company
at Little Rock and the ability which he displayed in making insurance sales led
to his appointment to the position of district manager at Fort Smith on the 17th
of June, 1919. At that time hut few policies were held in this district and
there was no office. Mr. Newton has developed the district and has been
instrumental in building up a wonderful business for the corporation at this
point. He now has fourteen men working out of this office, covering western
Arkansas, and he and the agents under him have written insurance to the amount
of over six million dollars. The agents now in his employ were without previous
experience, but under the careful instruction and direction of Mr. Newton they
have been developed into excellent men for the business and are reaping
substantial profit for themselves and at the same time contributing largely to
the upbuilding of the company with which they are connected.

    Mr. Newton was united in marriage in 1909 to Miss Cora E. Jones of Gurdon,
Arkansas, and they have become the parents of one child, Sarah Jane. Fraternally
Mr. Newton is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, with the
Knights of Pythias and with the Masons, and in his life he exemplifies the
sterling principles upon which these orders are based. He is a young man of most
progressive spirit, of clear vision in business affairs and of marked executive
ability, and as the years pass he accomplishes what he undertakes and each year
sees him a long way in advance of the position which he had attained the
previous year.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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