BIO: Newton E. NOBLET, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 326.
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  NOBLET, NEWTON E., clerk of county commissioners, was born in 
Halifax, then township, now borough.  May 28, 1850, son of Samuel and 
Susan (Ettien) Noblet.  The father was born in Halifax township.  Four 
brothers emigrated from the north of Ireland and settled in Delaware.  
One of them, Joseph, separated from the others and came to Dauphin 
county and entered a tract of land in Halifax township, and reared a 
family of seven sons, of whom the father of Newton E. was the youngest, 
having been born in 1813.  He was a cabinet maker by trade, and also an 
undertaker.  He was a member of the first council of the borough, 
voting with the Democratic party until the organization of the 
Republican party, when he united with that political body.  His wife 
died February 22, 1894, and both were members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  Their children were:  Sarah, Mrs. Thomas Leibrick, 
of Halifax; Newton E.; John, of New Buffalo, Perry county, Pa.; 
Elizabeth, Mrs. J. J. Roust, of Halifax; Samuel R., a printer, of 
Halifax.  Newton E. was educated in the schools of Halifax and was a 
teacher in the borough and township for seventeen years.  In 1889 he 
was appointed postmaster of Halifax, and served in the office four 
years and four months.  He was one of the organizers of the Halifax 
Shoe and Manufacturing Company, in which he has been the treasurer 
since Mr. Lodge vacated the office.  He served six years as a member of 
the school board, and for four years as the secretary of the board.  In 
his political views he is a Republican, and in 1895 was appointed clerk 
of the board of county commissioners.  Mr. Noblet is a stockholder in 
the Halifax Bank, of which his father was one of the organizers.  He is 
a member and trustee of the Halifax Lodge, P. O. S. of A.  Mr. Noblet 
was married to Miss Mary E. Spiese, of Halifax, by whom he has one 
child, Harry S.  The family attends the Methodist Episcopal church, of 
Halifax.