D. Newby (Biography)

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Taken from William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas


D. NEWBY, stock raiser, P.O. Howard, was born in Henry County, Ind., in 1838, where he was raised and lived until 1870, where he was engaged in farming and teaching, also reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He enlisted in August 1861, in the Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, serving one year, when he was discharged on account of disabilty.  In 1870, he emigrated to Kansas, and bought a farm on Elk River, Section 19, Township 30, Range 11.  He was among the early settlers, and has 490 acres on Mound Branch Creek, with seventy or eighty acres of timber, making a fine place for stock. has 130 acres under cultivation, 250 acres are fenced, and he has two orchards planted, is raising stock, keeping from thirty to forty cows, and is doing some dairying.  Also owns several buildings at Howard, two of them being business houses, the most of them being improvements made by him.  He was married in 1869, in Henry County, Ind., to Miss Mary E. Smith, of that county, they have one son, Frank E. he is a charter member of E. M. Stanton Post, No. 23, G. A. R., Mr. Newby is a public spirited citizen, and take a lively interest in all public matters.