Henry Newton

    Henry Newton, of Lawrenceburgh, was a native of the State of Vermont. In his early youth he resided near the city of Erie, Pennsylvania and assisted in getting out timber for the purpose of building United States vessels, to be used in the war of 1812-15, and which were used by Commodore Perry at his victory on Lake Erie. Mr. Newton joined the army and marched to Detroit to the relief of Hull. He lived in the vicinity of Lawrenceburgh, upward of sixty years. His death occurred in 1881, aged ninety-one years.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.