Tuscola-Livingston-Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Newton, Simeon B. 1840 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

SIMEON B. NEWTON, a farmer of Arbela Township, Tuscola County, was born in
Livingston County, Mich., February 7, 1840, and is a son of Simeon Newton, who
was born in Vermont in 1811. The latter was reared in Vermont until 1832 when he
came to Washtenaw County with his parents. His marriage with Isabella Bates, a
native of Ireland, brought to his home two sons and one daughter. He removed his
family to Livingston County where he followed farming for a number of years.

  The elder Mr. Newton came to this county in 1850 and settled on a farm on
section 17, where he had forty acres of land. He was the second settler in the
township and is living to-day at the age of eighty years, his wife dying in
1877. He was the first Supervisor of the township, and is a Democrat in
politics, and always has been. For a number of years he has been Justice of the
Peace. Our subject was ten years of age when he came to Tuscola County, and he
remained with his parents until he reached the age of twenty-one, working in the
lumber woods in the winter.

  The marriage of our subject with Pamelia Carpenter took place in Genesee
County. This lady is a native of Genesee County, and a daughter of William
Carpenter who was born in New York. She has become the mother of four
children—Edmond S., William L. Elmer A. and Ula J. Mr. Newton has lived in this
township since he was ten years of age and he now owns one hundred acres of
land, most of which he has cleared, and he now has sixty-five acres improved. He
has always been a Democrat and is now a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He has
filled the office of Township Clerk for three years and he has been Justice of
the Peace for four years. Samuel Newton, the grandfather of our subject, was a
soldier in the War of 1812, and a Vermonter by birth. He was of English
extraction. His death took place in Washtenaw County, this State, whither he
also had emigrated.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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