When Harry Burr Newton was born on 8 January 1885, in Philadelphia, Marion, Missouri, United States, his father, Francis H. Newton, was 26 and his mother, Mary E Parsons, was 15. He married Sarah Elizabeth Penland on 10 June 1906, in Gifford, Macon, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1935 and Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States in 1940. In 1920, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as farm laborer in Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming, United States. He died on 10 January 1946, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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