S. H. Newell

As printed in 1912

S. H. NEWELL.

In the collection of material for the biographical department of this publication there has been a constant aim to use a wise discrimination in regard to the selection of subjects and to exclude none worth of representation within its pages. Here will be found mention of worthy citizens of all vocations, and at this juncture it is permitted to offer a resume of one of the most active of the younger generation of agriculturists of Jasper county, who, by close application and a willingness to forge ahead despite obstacles, has acquired a very substantial start in life and at the same time won and retained the respect of all who know him.

S. H. Newell was born in Scott county, Iowa, May 27, 1874, the son of S. S. and Frances (Powell) Newell, the mother born in New York and the father in Pennsylvania. They came to Iowa in 1860, while yet single, and here they were married. He was a carpenter by trade, but after his marriage devoted his attention to farming, buying a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Scott county, which he cleared and improved and on which he lived until 1874, when he moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he lived three years, when he moved to Jasper county and bought a farm in Richland township and there became well established and lived until within two months of his death, which occurred on April 12, 1902. His widow is now living in Newton. Thev were the parents of ten children, four of whom are living.

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S. H. Newell, of this sketch, was educated in the public schools and the high school at Kellogg, later attending the Des Moines Commercial College, lacking a short time of graduation. He returned to Jasper county and took up farming for a livelihood, operating the home place until his father's death, in 1902. He is now the owner of a good farm of one hundred and thirty-four acres, a part of the old homestead, but he farms it all, one hundred and eighty acres. He has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser, and he also engaged in real estate to a considerable extent. He owns two hundred and ten acres in Jasper and Kossuth counties. These are used for speculation, but he makes this his home. He has remodeled the old home and added such other improvements as to render the place modern and desirable in every respect.

Politically, Mr. Newell is a Democrat. He was township. clerk for one term and secretary of the school board for three years, still holding the latter position. He belongs to the Pleasant View Methodist church, and is a number of the Kellogg Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Newell was married on March 5, 1902. to Elva Allfree, a native of Jasper county and the daughter of J. W..Ml free and wife, old settlers here. One daughter. Katherine EJizabeth. has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Newell.

As printed in Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.