Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Smith, Newton Phillip 1856 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

NEWTON PHILLIP SMITH

NEWTON PHILLIP SMITH was born September 7, 1856, in Woodford County, Kentucky.
He remained in his native state until he was fifteen years of age at which time
he came to Barton County. This was in 1872 and he saw the county grow from an
abode of buffalo and Indians to its present high state of cultivation. After he
had been here a few years he pre-empted a claim of 80 acres in section 10,
Pawnee Rock township and also the same amount Of land in section 25 of the same
township. He ran a threshing machine and farmed for a number of years and in
1S90 established a blacksmithing and repairing shop in Pawnee Rock. This is the
pioneer shop of that section of the county and the work that is turned out there
is known all over the county as the best that can be obtained. It was while he
was constable, an office that he held for several years that he broke up the
Taylor gang of outlaws and horse thieves. This gang, led by George Taylor,
terrorized this section of the country for a long time until Mr. Smith took up
their trail, and finally located them south of Fort Supply where he rounded up
the gang and recovered a number of horses belonging near Pawnee Rock. This was
one of the most desperate gangs that ever infested this part of the state and
before they were captured it was necessary to kill their leader. For this
excellent work Mr. Smith received many words of praise and the heartfelt thanks
of the entire community. He also served as city marshal of Pawnee Rock an office
in which he made a most enviable record. He was married in 1878 to Miss Mary
Jane Lile and they are the parents of four children: Edwin G., 33 years of age,
a contractor and builder who has built some of the finest buildings in Pawnee
Rock among them being the school building and all the good buildings in the
town; Garfield, 32 years of age, aids his father in the blacksmith shop and is a
skilled workman; Earl, 25 years of age, is manager of the Rock Mill and Elevator
Company's interests in Great Bend; Elaine, 28 years of age, is a clerk in one of
the biggest stores in Pawnee Rock. Mr. Smith has always been an enterprising and
progressive citizen and is one of the really old timers of this section of the
state and has had no small part in making of Barton County one of the best in
the State of Kansas.

[photo] Threshing Outfit of Newt. Smith, Taken in the Early 80's



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