When Claude Newton was born on 26 October 1883, in Grundy, Missouri, United States, his father, Jasper Lafayette Newton, was 42 and his mother, Alwilda Margaret Butcher, was 34. He married Nellie R Pence in 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1969, at the age of 86, and was buried in Pleasant Hills, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
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