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Persevering and energetic in whatever direction his efforts have been turned, material success is not the real test of his achievements, for he has fairly gained and steadfastly maintained the unqualified esteem and confidence of the people. He was born at Holly Springs, Marshall County, Minnesota, April 10, 1866, and is a son of Dr. James A. and Phoebe (RIGGS) Newton. The Newton family was founded in the United States by the grandfather of Doctor Newton, who brought his wife and children from London, England, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1823, and spent the remaining years of his life in that city. James A. Newton was born in the City of London, in 1817, and was six years of age when brought to the United States, his boyhood and youth being passed in Philadelphia. He enjoyed good educational advantages, and when ready to enter upon a career of his own chose medicine as his field of effort and was duly graduated from the Philadelphia Medical College, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the early '60s, Doctor Newton removed with his family to Marshall County, Mississippi, where he practiced for several years at Holly Springs, and in 1863 went to Phelps County, Missouri. For a short time during the Civil war he served in the Confederate army as a regimental surgeon, but was discharged because of disability, and it is probably that his army experiences were the cause of his early death, in 1865. Doctor Newton married Miss Phoebe Riggs, who was born in Tennessee, in 1823, and died in Missouri, in 1907, and of their children, four are still living: A. C., who is a farmer and resides in Northern Arkansas; Dr. James W.; Mary, who married John CLARK, a merchant of Missouri; and Ulysses, a farmer, residing in Arkansas. After attending the graded public school of Phelps County, Missouri, James W. Newton was sent to the academy at Vienna, Missouri, and there pursued a course of study which fitted him for labors in the field of education. Accordingly, he took a teacher's license and during six years was principal of schools in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. During this time he had decided to engage in the practice of medicine. In 1900 he came to Oklahoma and located at Duncan, where he passed two months, then coming the first time to Loco, where he remained three and one-half years. During his residence here he pursued a course of study at Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, and was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His first field of practice was the State of Missouri, where he passed two years, and in 1905 went to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and later to Benton County in that state. He took up his permanent residence at Loco, Oklahoma, in 1906, and this city has continued to be his home and field of practice. During the years of his practice, Doctor Newton has made his profession remunerative financially and has won a warm place in the esteem of his patients. He belongs to the Stephens County Medical Society and other organizations of his calling, and is fraternally affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter of the Masonic Order in Benton County, Arkansas, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Ozark, Missouri. He is a socialist in his political views. Doctor Newton was married in Benton County, Arkansas, to Miss Mary JOHNSON, who died in 1888, the mother of one child, William A., who is cashier of the Bank of Rush Springs, Oklahoma. In 1891 Doctor Newton was married a second time, in Benton County, Arkansas, to Miss Loui V. STANLEY, daughter of the late George P. Stanley, who was a farmer in the Cherokee Nation, now Oklahoma. Six children have been born to this union: Maude, who is the wife of Jesse RADER, who is engaged in the automobile business at Loco; Percy, who is cashier of the Bank of Loco; Opal, who is a teacher in the public schools of Stephens County and resides with her parents: Nell, who is the wife of Ivan HEATH, an oil man of Stephens County; and Lucille and Stanley, who are attending the public schools of Loco. Transcribed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy M. Tenaza, August 1, 1999. SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).