Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Newman, Jonathan December 3, 1794 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 753 & 754

Jonathan Newman, a son of John and Rachel Newman, was born in the south part 
of Guilford County, N.C., Dec. 3, 1794. He was reared a member of the Society 
of Friends, belonging to Centre Meeting. About the year 1820 he was united in 
marriage with Eleanor, daughter of William and Ester Dicks, who also belonged 
to the Quakers, and whose home was headquarters for visiting friends at 
Centre. They married out of meeting, and that being against the rules of the 
society, they sent in a letter to the meeting desiring to be retained as 
members. That was dated March, instead of third month, as the role required, 
which the meeting returned for correction; that they failed to do, and were 
disowned. He afterward joined a militia company in Fentriss Township, was 
elected a Captain, and served in that capacity for thirteen years. In the 
summer of 1836 he sold his plantation (the name by which farms went in that 
country at that day) and in the fall, with his family, moved to and settled in 
Milton, Wayne Co., Ind., arriving there about the middle of November of the 
same year. There he opened a shop and carried on wagon-making, that being his 
occupation, in which business he continued while living. He served a number of 
years as Justice of the Peace in Washington Township, and was also Town 
Trustee and School Director. It was under his directorship that the first 
school-house was built in Washington Township, and located in Milton, by 
taxation, in the year 1846, the same brick building being now used by the F. 
W. & M. Railroad Company, as a freight depot, it having been donated to the 
company by the town of Milton, at the completion of the present public school 
building. He reared a family of six children, all of whom still live in and 
around Milton---Edmund B., Granville S., Elizabeth, Milo, Sallie and Henry C. 
He died April 4, 1855, and his widow died Aug. 16, 1870, the latter aged 
seventy-one years.

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