Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Newell, William B. 1827 - 
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   WILLIAM B. NEWELL, the eldest son of the Rev. David and Jane Newell, was born
in Portland, Me., May 12, 1827. He was married to Susannah K. Weeks June 15,
1850. They have two children, Ida E. Newell, born January 12, 1852, who has
always resided with him, and William H. Newell, Mayor of Lewiston. Mr. Newell
has resided in Durham for more than forty years, during thirty-five of which he
has occupied the farm where he now lives at West Durham.

   He secured a good common school education in early life and taught school
during the winter seasons for thirty years with unqualified success. He is one
of the few surviving representatives of those old-fashioned school masters whose
work brought them into closest touch with pupils and parents alike, and whose
influence, always for truer and higher manhood and womanhood, has borne its
fruit in the sterling qualities of their pupils. Few of Durham's citizens have
done more to stamp the impress of a noble life upon the lives of her sons and
daughters than Mr. Newell.

   He has held many town offices, notably those of Town Clerk, member of the
Superintending School Committee, member of the Board of Selectmen and Town
Treasurer. A fitting tribute to his sense of fairness in all dealings of man
with man and to the confidence which his fellow-townsmen have in his honesty and
conscientiousness is the fact that they have persisted in -choosing him
moderator of their annual town meetings for many years.

   In politics, he is a Democrat, respected alike by his political friends and
opponents. In religion he is a Congregationalist. He is an upright citizen. His
word is as good as his bond.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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