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  THE 
  

  

  AMERICAN 
  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  SCIENCE 
  

  

  [FOURTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

  HUBERT 
  ANSON 
  NEWTON. 
  

  

  [Read 
  before 
  the 
  National 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences, 
  in 
  April. 
  1897. 
  — 
  The 
  portrait 
  

   accompanying 
  this 
  notice 
  is 
  a 
  reproduction 
  of 
  a 
  photograph 
  taken 
  by 
  a 
  member 
  

   of 
  the 
  family 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1891.] 
  

  

  Hubert 
  Anson 
  Xewton 
  was 
  born 
  on 
  March 
  19th, 
  1830, 
  at 
  

   Sherburne, 
  N. 
  Y.. 
  and 
  died 
  at 
  New 
  Haven, 
  Conn., 
  on 
  the 
  

   12th 
  day 
  of 
  August. 
  1896. 
  He 
  was 
  the 
  fifth 
  son 
  of 
  a 
  family 
  

   ;: 
  -even 
  sons 
  and 
  four 
  daughters, 
  children 
  of 
  William 
  and 
  

   Lois 
  I'Butlen 
  Newton. 
  The 
  parents 
  traced 
  their 
  ancestry 
  

   back 
  to 
  the 
  first 
  settlers 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  and 
  Connecticut,* 
  

   and 
  had 
  migrated 
  from 
  the 
  latter 
  to 
  Sherburne, 
  when 
  many 
  

   parts 
  of 
  central 
  Xew 
  York 
  were 
  still 
  a 
  wilderness. 
  They 
  both 
  

   belonged 
  to 
  families 
  remarkable 
  for 
  longevity, 
  and 
  lived 
  them- 
  

   selves 
  to 
  the 
  ages 
  of 
  ninety-three 
  and 
  ninety-four 
  years. 
  Of 
  

   the 
  children, 
  all 
  the 
  sons 
  and 
  two 
  daughters 
  were 
  living 
  as 
  

   recently 
  as 
  the 
  year 
  1889, 
  the 
  youngest 
  being 
  then 
  fifty-three 
  

   years 
  of 
  age. 
  William 
  Xewton 
  was 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  considerable 
  

   enterprise, 
  and 
  undertook 
  the 
  construction 
  of 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  sec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  other 
  work 
  in 
  canal 
  and 
  

   railroad 
  construction 
  in 
  Xew 
  York 
  and 
  Pennsylvania. 
  In 
  

   these 
  constructions 
  he 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  relied 
  on 
  his 
  native 
  

   abilities 
  to 
  think 
  out 
  for 
  himself 
  the 
  solution 
  of 
  problems 
  

   which 
  are 
  generally 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  technical 
  training. 
  His 
  wife 
  

   was 
  remarkable 
  for 
  great 
  strength 
  of 
  character 
  united 
  with 
  a 
  

   quiet 
  temperament 
  and 
  well-balanced 
  mind, 
  and 
  was 
  noted 
  

   among 
  her 
  neighbors 
  for 
  her 
  mathematical 
  powers. 
  

  

  * 
  Richard 
  Butler, 
  the 
  great-grandfather 
  of 
  Lois 
  Butler, 
  came 
  over 
  from 
  England 
  

   before 
  1683. 
  and 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  those 
  who 
  removed 
  from 
  Cambridge 
  to 
  Hartford. 
  

   An 
  ancestor 
  of 
  William 
  Newton 
  came 
  directly 
  from 
  England 
  to 
  the 
  New 
  Haven 
  

   colony 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  century. 
  

  

  Am. 
  Jottr. 
  Sct. 
  — 
  Fourth 
  Series, 
  Vol. 
  Ill, 
  No. 
  17. 
  — 
  Mat, 
  189T. 
  

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