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Clifton
Delano Newell This
is an age in which the farmer stands pre-eminently above any other class as a
producer of wealth. He simply takes
advantage of the winds, the warm air, the bright sunshine and the refreshing
rains, and applying his own hands and skill to nature's gifts he creates grain,
hay, livestock, etc., all of which are absolute necessities to the inhabitants
of the world, for no matter what our vocations and avocations may be or where we
may choose to maintain our home, we cannot lose sight of the fact that we are
depending upon the tiller of the soil and without him the entire human race
would perish. It has been well said
by one of our wisest men, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms and
they will spring up again as if by magic, but destroy the farms and the grass
will grow in the streets of every city." One
of this large class of the world's benefactors is Clifton Delano Newell, of
Kellogg Township, Jasper County, who was born December 31, 1878, in Newton
Township. He is the son of George W. and Amanda (Brown) Newell, the
father born in Knox County, Ohio, and the mother's birth also occurred in that
County on August 11, 1848. They
grew to maturity there, were educated and married in their home community and
began life on the farm, in fact, have continued to engage in agricultural
pursuits until the present time. They
came to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1878, locating in Newton Township, living a year
on a rented farm a mile northwest of the town of Newton, and they continued to
live in that vicinity until 1892, when they moved to a farm three miles
southeast of Newton, and there became very comfortably established. To Mr. and Mrs. George W. Newell six children have been born, namely: Nora E., Clifton Delano, of this review, Bessie H., Baxter E., Clayton Elmer and George Martin. The immediate subject of this sketch grew to manhood in Jasper County and attended the public schools, attending high school at Newton for three years. After leaving the schoolroom he took up farming with his father, on the shares, thus working until 1909, when, having gotten a good start, he purchased the one-hundred-and- forty -acre farm on which he now lives, eighty acres of which is located in section 32, Kellogg Township, and sixty-eight acres in section 5, Buena Vista Township. Until recently he owned three hundred and twenty acres in South Dakota, which he has now disposed of. His home place has been well improved and is very skillfully managed, and he carries on general farming and stock raising in a successful manner, making a specialty of breeding an excellent grade of stock. Mr.
Newell was married on January 3, 1909, to Christine Paulson, who was born in
Kellogg Township, this County, September 3, 1878, the daughter of Hans M. and
Pauline (Tygersyn) Paulson, both born in Denmark. They were the parents of ten
children, seven of whom are living, namely: Helena Marie, Nelse R., Christine,
wife of Mr. Newell of this review; Lena, Andrew, Catherine is deceased; Charley
Martin, Henry is deceased, and one child died in infancy. Politically, Mr. Newell is independent, and he belongs to the Methodist Church. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 1307. |
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