E. F. Newton Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 915

E. F. NEWTON, superintendent of Laflin & Rand's Powder Works, Platteville; is a 
son of Edward and Mary Newton, who came in an early day to Dubuque, Iowa, from 
Maryland.  E. F. Newton was born in Dubuque June 11, 1840.  Two years later his 
father died, and the wife followed him when E. F. was about 15 years of age.  
Thus thrown upon his own resources, he returned to Maryland, and clerked in a 
Baltimore hardware store until he was 21; in 1862, he entered the employ of the 
powder manufacturing company, and served both as clerk and traveling salesman 
for nine years.  He was appointed to his present position in 1871.  Married Miss 
Susan Shafer, of Illinois, by whom he has a son - Charles Newton, born in 
Platteville.