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From Biographical review of Lee County, Iowa; (1905)
WINFIELD WEST NEWBERRY.
W'iufield West Newberry is one of the younger representatives of a notable family in Lee county, and worthily sustains an honored name. While engaged in farming and always a hard worker, he is a well-informed citizen, and keeps abreast of the doings of the Avorld. Agriculture is to him not a narrowing but a broadening occupation, and its opportunities for thought and reflection, its close contact with the order of nature, and its deep insight into the play of eternal forces, makes for a large and lasting culture.
Mr. Newberry was born in Des Moines township, Lee county, Iowa, February 29, 1856, a son of James W. and Edith (Benedict) Newberry, of whom a biographical sketch appears on another page of this work.
lie was given a coninion-sclincil education, aiul became an intelligent and thoughtful man. He remained under the parental roof until the time of his marriage, and assisted his father in the management and work of the family homestead. After he married he established his home on an eighty-acre farm, to the south of the southeast quarter of section 8, and here he has lived and labored until now he is known as a successful cultivator of the soil, and the owner of 147 acres of the choicest land. To this he has given close and constant attention with the exception of about a year in 1883 and 1884, which he spent in Sutter county, California.
Mr. Newberry was married February 7, 1877, to Miss Sarah E. Case, a native of Indiana, where she was born February 23, 1855. Her parents, Thomas J. and Mary J. (McBride) Case, were among the pioneers of Lee county, making their arrival here as early as 1857. They were honorable and upright people, and stood very high among the early settlers. An interesting sketch of their career appears on another page of this work, and shows that their character, general intelligence and industry, united with integrity and public spirit were mighty factors in their pronounced success.
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r. Xewberry is a Republican in his political views, and has been a township tnistee for fifteen years altogether. For two years he served as justice of the peace. He is much interested in educational matters, and for man\- years has been school director. Mr. Newberry is awake to all public affairs, and anything that looks to the public good can always depend on him as an active supporter. He and his bright and charming wife have always drawn around llieni warm-hearted friends, ami they are greatly attached to their friends and neighbors in turn.
As printed in Biographical review of Lee County, Iowa; (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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