Turner County, SD Biographies.....Newby, I. H. 1853 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. I. H. NEWBY, mayor of the thriving town of Parker, who is also engaged in
the general merchandise and live stock business there, is a native of Fort
Madison, Lee Co., Iowa, and was born June 10, 1853. He is a son of I. H. and
Catherine (Hoskins) Newby, the former a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Iowa
about 1835 and settled in Lee county. He was a farmer by occupation, and died
there at the age of twenty-six years. Mrs. Newby was born in Miami county, Ohio,
of Scotch descent, and came to Iowa with her husband in 1835; she also died
there, when fifty-eight years old. They had a family of three children, viz.:
Rebecca, deceased; Albert G., a farmer of Parker township, Turner county; and
the subject of this sketch.

    Mr. Newby was the youngest of the family, and was reared in his native
county and state, attending the common schools of the district in his early
youth. When he was seventeen he became a student at the Denmark academy of Lee
county, paying his own tuition, the money for which he earned by working by the
day or month, at whatever he could find to do. During the winter before his
twentieth birthday he taught his first school, and in all spent four terms
teaching, working during the summer on farms. He first came to Dakota territory,
in March, 1874, and located at Finlay, where he opened up a farm, and that same
fall returned to Iowa to teach school during the approaching term. December 27,
1877, Mr. Newby was united in wedlock to Miss Libbie A. Harrington, a native of
Lee county, Iowa, born September 23, 1857, and a daughter of John and Betsy
(McNeill) Harrington. She was the youngest of six children, two sons and four
daughters, and passed her girlhood and grew to maturity in her native county.
After their marriage, which occurred in Iowa, they came to Dakota and located on
a farm in section 34 of Parker township, where they remained till February,
1881. That year they removed to the village of Parker, and Mr. Newby engaged in
the carpenter business. In November, 1886, he engaged with M. J. Donahue in the
buying and shipping of live stock, and in March, 1895, established, with E. S.
Robbins as partner, the general merchandise business now conducted under the
name of Newby & Robbins. He has been eminently successful in both these
enterprises. Besides his town interests, he yet retains ownership of the old
homestead of 160 acres in section 34, Parker township, has a half section in
Hurley township, and also several good pieces of property in the village of
Parker. He is a self-made man; all he has accumulated and now possesses is 1 the
result of his own hard work and industry, of which he can be justly proud. He is
without doubt one of the most popular men in the community, which is attested by
the fact that he has been honored by election to many of the offices in the gift
of the people, the duties of which he has discharged to their entire
satisfaction. Among the various offices he has filled, is that of sheriff of
Turner county, to which he was elected and re-elected twice, serving three
consecutive terms of two years each. As a candidate for state senator on the
Republican ticket in 1892, he was elected, and served one term, and has also
been a member of the town and school boards for a period of eleven years. His
present position of mayor he was elected to in 1896. He is a member of the A. O.
U. W., D. of H. of the Dakotas, and M. W. A. lodges, at Parker, and has been
closely identified with the work and progress of the Baptist church, of which he
is a member, and has been since he joined the denomination in Iowa in 1873.
During his entire term of office as sheriff he served as superintendent of the
Sunday-school, and was absent but three Sundays from his post, and they were
because of sickness. He has never used tobacco in any form, and the wiseness of
such a course is attested by his well-preserved condition, both mentally and
physically.

    Mr. and Mrs. Newby are the parents of one son, Harley D., born November 12,
1885. Politically, Mr. Newby was a Democrat, but is now a stanch supporter of
the Republican party, the free trade principles of the former being the cause of
his affiliation with the G. O. P.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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