Brief Life History of Clinton Ashley
When Clinton Ashley Newton was born in 1848, in Ohio, United States, his father, Dennis Newton, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Adams, was 26. He had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Harriet Dille. He lived in Stewart Township, Kidder, North Dakota, United States in 1910 and Wells, North Dakota, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1861. He was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Hurdsfield, Wells, North Dakota, United States.
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- Clinton A Newton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Clinton Ashley Newton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Clinton A Newton in entry for Harriet Vinnie Wilson, "Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Bad Ax, Wisconsin, United States 1862: Vernon, Wisconsin, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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