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Newton, Daniel Howe

railroad president, was born June 23, 1827, in Hubbardstown, Mass. Since 1887 he has been president of the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington railroad, at Holyoke, Mass.

Newton, Eben

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1795, in Goshen, Conn. In 1842 he was elected a member of the Ohio senate, and was soon afterward elected president judge of the third circuit. He was elected a representative in congress for the term from 1851 to 1853, and in 1856 was elected president of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon Railroad company, in which position he remained until 1859, when he declined a reelection.

Newton, Henry

educator, author, was born Aug. 12, 1845, in New York city.

In 1877 he was made professor of mining and metallurgy in the Ohio State university. He was the author of a work entitled Reports on the Geology and Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota. He died Aug. 5, 1877, in Black Hills, S. D.

Newton, Henry J

inventor, was born Feb. 23, 1823, in Harleton, Pa. He invented the first permanent collodion emulsion in 1875, and afterward became known as father of the dry-plate process in America. He died Dec. 23, 1895, in New York city.

Newton, Hubert Anson

educator, author, was born March 19, 1830, in Sherburne, N. Y. He was elected full professor in Yale in 1855, which he has since continued without interruption. His scientific work in pure mathematics includes researches On the Construction of Certain Curves by Points; Certain Transcendental Curves, and similar papers, but his most valuable investigations have been in connection with meteors.

Newton, Isaac

naval architect, was born Jan. 16, 1794, in Schodack, N. Y.

He was the founder of the People's line of steamboats between Albany and New York, and he was also interested in the construction of many ocean steamers. He died Nov. 22, 1858, in New York city.

Newton, Isaac

civil engineer, was born Aug. 4, 1837, in New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he was appointed first assistant engineer in the United States navy. Later he became supervising constructor of iron-clads for the United States government in New York, and in this capacity superintended the building, among others, of the Puritan and Dictator. He died Sept. 25, 1884, in New York city.

Newton, John Thomas

naval officer, was born May 20, 1793, in Alexandria, Va. In 1852-55 he was flag-officer of the home squadron, which gave him the title of commodore. The last two years of his life he was in command of the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. He died July 28, 1857, in Washington, D. C.

Newton, Richard

clergyman, author, was born July 25, 1813, in England. He was an episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, long prominent among extreme low churchmen, and the author of The King's Highway; The Great Pilot; Rills from the Fountain of Life; Bible Promises; and Natural History of the Bible. He died May 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Newton, Richard Heber

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 31, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of All Souls church, and prominent as a very broad church theologian. He is the author of Womanhood; The Morals of Trade; The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings; Philistinism; Social Studies; Church and Creed; and The Children's Church.

Newton, Robert Safford

surgeon, author, was born Dec. 12, 1818, in Gallipolis, Ohio. He was a surgeon of New York city, and the author of Eclectic Treatise in the Practice of Medicine; and Antiseptic Surgery. He died Oct. 9, 1881, in New York city.