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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 180]
         
         STEWART NEWELL, Justice, Chilton. Born in Vermont, Oct.
       11, 1817. In 1821, he went to Hudson, N. Y., and attended 
       school, and afterwards to New Hartford. He also went to 
       Detroit, Mich., where he run the first engine on the Michi-
       gan Central Railroad. He then went to Utica and stopped in 
       Rochester and Albany, and finally came west to Wisconsin 
       and bought a farm in Brothertown, Calumet Co. He afterwards 
       came to Chilton Town, and bought a farm, on which he stayed
       until he took a position as master mechanic at Fond du Lac, 
       on the Northwestern Railroad. In 1861, he enlisted in the 
       4th Wis. V. I. In the Fall he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 
       and was in command of the company at one time, but resigned 
       on account of an injury, and came back to Chilton and bought 
       the old farm back. Later, he moved to Chilton City, and is 
       now a Justice of the Peace. In 1838, he married Miss CHEESEBRO. 
       They had three girls - AMANDA A. (who became Mrs. J. L. ALLEN), 
       HARRIETTE (who became Mrs. ELLIOTT) and Gertrude (who became 
       Mrs. PIER). All three daughters are dead, and their children 
       live with Mr. NEWELL.

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