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 433 NEWTON. NEWTON. town, and at the academy in Westfield. He began teaching school at the age of twenty, and taught three winters in South- borough. In March, 1845, Mr. Newton commenced business in the meat trade, which he car- ried on extensively for about five years. He served as station agent in Fayville and Cordaville for about eleven years, having been employed by the Boston &- Worces- ter Railroad Company. He was appointed United States assist- ant assessor of internal revenue, which position he held for some five years. He has been postmaster at Fayville since Tuly 29, 1869, and has long held the office of justice of the peace and notary public. He has been a member of the school com- mittee ten years, selectman ten years, assessor of taxes twenty-seven years, and has held the office of justice of the first district court of Eastern Worcester since June 25, 1879. He has been moderator of town meetings for over thirty years, sur- veyor of land and insurance agent, has settled, and helped to settle, over two hundred estates, besides having been en- gaged in the purchase and sale of much real estate. He was married in Southborough, De- cember 9, 1846, to Arathusa A., daughter of Taylor and Ann L. Brigham, by whom he has had four children, three of whom are living : Francis D., Ada M., and Cora A. Newton. NEWTON, William Wilberforce, son of Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., and Lydia (Gretorex) Newton, was born at St. Paul's rectory, Philadelphia, Pa., November 4, 1843- His early education was obtained at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and he entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, graduating in 1S65 as class poet, and spent the following year in Europe with two college companions. Returning, he entered the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1866, graduating in 1868. He was ordained deacon upon graduating, and ordained priest in June, 1869. The occupation of his life has been that of clergyman in the Episcopal church — not neglecting, how- ever, that of authorship. He was connected with the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, from 186S to '70; rector of St. Paul's, Brookline, from 1870 to '75 ; of Trinity church, Newark, N. J., from 1875 to '77 ; of St. Paul's church, Boston, from 1877 to '81, and has been the rector of St. Stephen's, Pittsfield, from 188 1 to the present time. On the 1 6th of November, 1870, in the Church of the Epiphany, in Philadelphia, Mr. Newton was married to Emily Steven- son, daughter of the Rev. James W. and Emily (Stevenson) Cooke. Their chil- dren are : W. W. Newton, Jr., born May 18, 1872, and Emily S. Newton, born April 19, 1874- Mr. Newton's present residence is at St. Stephen's rectory, Pittsfield, where he is a member of the town school committee, and of the Bartlett G. A. R. Post. He is a member of the World's Red Cross Society, WILLIAM W. NEWTON. and was a private in Landis' battery of ar- tillery in Philadelphia, in 1863. He is vice- president of the New England Society of the Alumni of the University of Pennsyl- vania, is the secretary of the American Congress of Churches, and honorary vice- president of the English Society for the Elevation and Purification of the Stage. Mr. Newton visited Europe in 1878 anil again in i888-'89. During his active life he has published the following books : " Bible Outlines " (1870), " Gate of the Temple " (1875), " Little and Wise " (1876), " Inter- preter's House " (1S78), ''Palace Beauti- ful," " Great Heart," " A Father's Bless- ing," " Troublesome Children," "Summer Sermons," " Priest and Man," a novel, " The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems,"