Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Newton, Eliphalet D. 1835 - 1907
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Eliphalet D. Newton, now deceased, was a Kansas pioneer and during his
lifetime was a prominent and influential citizen. Mr. Newton was a native of
Andover, Oxford county, Maine. He was born March 17, 1835, and was a son of
Benjamin and Clara Newton, both natives of Maine, of old New England stock.
Eliphalet D. Newton spent his boyhood days in the Pine Tree State and was reared
in his native town, receiving his education in Andover Academy. In 1856, just
after reaching his majority, he went west and for a time worked at the carpenter
trade in Iowa. In 1859 he went to California and was engaged in gold mining. He
worked at various places in the mining industry and for a time was employed in
quartz mills, receiving very high wages. He built and operated a stamp mill and
for a time was located at Virginia City, Nev. After spending nearly ten years in
the mining regions of the Pacific coast and the mountains, he came to Kansas in
1868, locating at Spring Hill. In 1870 he purchased a farm of 220 acres, one
mile south of Spring Hill, and the Frisco railroad was later built across this
place. When he purchased the place it was unbroken prairie land, but he
gradually improved it and finally developed it into a high state of cultivation,
and made of it one of the best farms in that section of the State. In 1894 he
left the farm on account of failing health and removed to Spring Hill, where he
resided until the time of his death, January 18, 1907. Mr. Newton was a man of
strong personality and possessed the requisite elements of success. He was a man
of clear judgment and decided convictions, and made no attempt to conceal his
views on questions of importance. He was a staunch Republican and served as
trustee of his township, and at one time was a candidate for county
commissioner. While he took a keen interest in public affairs and gave close
attention to his private business, his greatest interest was centered in his
home and family; he was typically a home man." Mr. Newton was married March 17,
1870, at Spring Hill, to Miss Mary Frances Porter. She is a native of Perry
county, Ohio, born April 10, 1847, and is a daughter of Thomas and Rachel
(Evert) Porter, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. The
father died in 1852 and the mother departed this life March 17, 1880. In 1848,
when Mary F. Porter was one year old, her parents came west and settled in
Monroe county, Iowa, where her father died, and her mother died at Melvern, Kan.
In 1866, Mrs. Newton came to Kansas and settled at Spring Hill where she was
married. To E. D. and Mary Frances (Porter) Newton were born two children, Ella,
wife of Eugene Davis, who is connected with the Southwest National Bank of
Commerce, Kansas City, and they have two children, Elsie and Winifred; and
Millie married Charles Caswell and they have one child, Dorothy. They reside on
the home farm. Mrs. Newton resides at Spring Hill where she is well known and
has many friends. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a
conscientious Christian woman.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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