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Born 1832
From History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880)
A. B. NEWSON, fa m w; P. O., Mt. Gilead; was born in Gilead, Morrow Co., in 1832. His parents were originally from Washington Co., Ind.; his ancestry preceding the second generation were English. Mr. Newson spent his youth on his father’s farm, attending the public school in the vicinity. At the age of 25 he married Miss Phoebe A. Hull; the following four years he remained in Gilead, after which he removed to Washington Tp., and settled on apart of the large farm, which he has since acquired, and now controls. They have three children — Georgiana, now the wife of W. F. Blayney, living on a part of the farm; Laura, 14, and Elry, 5 years of age. Mr. Newson’s farm numbers 500 acres, cultivated principally with a view to stock-grazing; while he has a large number of many varieties of live stock, he specializes two branches, viz: fine horses and sheep. He at present has on the farm about a thousand sheep, some thorough-bred, of the Spanish Merino variety; Mr. Newson is also a prominent official in the M. E. Church. With a character unimpeachable, with an abundance at his command, with opportunities unsurpassed, the future before him is indeed enviable.
As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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