Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Newell, Octavius S. 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    OCTAVIUS S. NEWELL, real estate agent and Secretary and Superintendent of
the Kenosha Milk-Pan Co. Mr. Newell's father, Hon. Theodore Newell, was a native
of Bristol, Ct.; he located the first town site of Muskegon, Mich., in 1836; he
brought his family to Detroit first, then in the fall of 1837, removed to
Muskegon; he erected the first steam saw-mill at that point, and retained an
interest in the lumber business there until 1860, although he removed to Kenosha
in 1841, and resided here until 1857, when he removed with his family to New
Haven, Conn., and remained until 1863, then came to Chicago and died there Oct.
30, 1869. His widow survives him, and is now a resident of Kenosha; she was born
at Stockbridge, Mass. Octavius was born in Detroit, Mich., May 24, 1837; he was
educated at Yale College. Previous to the war, he was engaged in the produce
commission business, in Chicago; when the war broke out, he entered the service
as clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, with Baxter, Chief Quartermaster of
Gen. Grant's staff; was with him about two years, when Baxter resigned. Then
returned to Chicago and was engaged in lumber business with his father until his
death in 1869; came to Kenosha in November, 1871. Married Mary O. Jones,
daughter of Daniel A. Jones, of Chicago; date of marriage, Nov. 6, 1866.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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