Newman, Samuel Phillips – Niblack, Silas N
Newman, Samuel Phillips
educator, author, was born in 1797 in Andover, Mass. In 1818 he became a tutor in Bowdoin college, and the following year was chosen professor of ancient languages. In 1824 he was transferred to the chair of rhetoric and oratory. After twenty-one years in that institution he took charge of the normal school at Barre, Mass. He was the author of a treatise on rhetoric, which is still a textbook in a multitude of schools and numerous colleges. He was also the author of an elementary work on Political Economy. He died Feb. 10, 1842, in Andover, Mass.
Newman, William Truslow
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 23, 1843, in Knoxville, Tenn. For twelve years he was actively engaged in the practice of law in Atlanta, Ga.; and since 1886 has been United States district judge.
Newsham, Joseph Parkinson
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 24, 1837, in Preston, England. In his youth his parents settled in Monroe county, Ill., and subsequently moved to St. Louis, Mo. He there attended the public schools and clerked in a store.
He studied law in Edwardsville, Ill.; was admitted to the bar, and acquired a reputation as a successful lawyer and eloquent orator. During the war he obtained the rank of first lieutenant of cavalry on the staff of General John T.
Fremont; and was afterward first lieutenant and adjutant of the thirty-second Missouri infantry. After the war he settled in Ascension parish, La., and there taught school and practiced law; took a part in the reconstruction acts of congress; and was elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican. For many years he was the editor and owner of a republican newspaper; has been a strong advocate of home protection, and has taken an active part in public affairs; has been parish attorney, district attorney, and filled various other positions with scrupulous energy and consummate ability.
Newton, Churubusco
lawyer, legislator, was born May 15, 1848, in St.
Helena parish, La. He received the rudiments of his education in the home schools, and then attended the state university of Louisiana. After leaving college he taught school for three years; was admitted to the bar in 1870; and soon attained prominence as an able lawyer of Monroe, La. In 1879 he was elected to the state senate of Louisiana, and served for four years. In 1886 he was elected a member of congress and during his congressional career secured several measures of importance to his district and state.
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
soldier, civil engineer, was born Aug. 24, 1823, in Norfolk, Va. In 1842 he graduated from the Military academy at West Point, and received the appointment of brevet second lieutenant in the corps of engineers.
In 1858 he was made chief engineer of the Utah expedition; in 1861 was chief engin eer of the department of the Shenandoah; and then became assistant engineer in the construction of the defences of Washington. He was given the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, and subsequently was made a brigadier-general in the regular army. His greatest achievement was the improvement of Hell Gate channel.
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.
Newton, Robert Safford
physician, journalist, educator, author, was born Sept. 2, 1855, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was professor of diseases of the eye, throat, and skin, in the New York Eclectic Medical college in 1881-86, and also dean of the faculty. He edited the New York Quarterly Cancer Journal in 1880-81, and the New York Medical Eclectic from 1877 till 1885.
Newton, Thomas
congressman, was born in 1769 in Norfolk, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1801 to 1829, and again from 1831 to 1833. He died Aug. 5, 1847, in Norfolk, Va.
Newton, Thomas W
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Arkansas in February and March, 1847.
Newton, William
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1820 in England. He was a reformed episcopal clergyman of West Chester, Pa., and the author of The First Two Visions of the Book of Daniel; The Morning Star, and Other Poems; and Nature's Testimony to Nature's God.
Newton, William Wilberforce
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 4, 1843, in Philadelphia. He is an episcopal clergyman of Pittsfield, Mass., and the author of Essays of To-Day, Religious and Theological; The Legend of St. Telemachus; The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems; Summer Sermons; The Voice Out of Egypt; Ragnar, the Sea King; Paradise; The Priest and the Man, or Abelard and Héloise, an historical novel; Life of W. A.
Muhlenberg; and several collections of sermons to children, including The Wicket Gate; The Interpreter's House; Little and Wise; and A Father's Blessing.
Newton, Willoughby
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.
Niblack, Silas N
congressman. He was elected a representative from Florida to the forty-second congress, having successfully contested the seat claimed by Josiah T. Walls.