Newton Hawes Kingman (1837 - 1937)

Born 20 May 1837 in Geauga, Ohio, United States

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Died 5 Feb 1937 at age 99 in Lane, Oregon, United States

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Biography

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Newton Hawes Kingman was born in Geauga County, Ohio, on May 20, 1837.^[1]. He was the son of Edmund Kingman and Hannah Howes.^[2][3]

The Kingman family moved to Walworth County, Wisconsin, in 1849, and Newton Kingman briefly attended Albion Academy until early 1861, when he enlisted in Company K of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The regiment mustered out in August 1861; Kingman soon joined Company I of the 13th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, with which he served until September 8, 1865. He was commissioned a captain by the end of the [Civil] war.^[1]

After working as a traveling salesman for several years, Kingman moved to Indiana, where he and a brother formed the publishing firm Kingman Brothers in 1876. In mid-1883, he moved to Walworth County in present-day South Dakota, where he built a homestead; his family joined him the following year. Kingman held local political offices in the mid- to late 1890s and became a land broker in 1899, moving to Selby, South Dakota, in 1900. In 1918, he retired to Eugene, Oregon.^[1]

Newton married Mary Eloise Davis (1842-1920) on 26 November 1866. Children:^[2]

1. May Louise Kingman (1867- )
2. Arthur Judson Kingman (1869- )
3. Newton Hawes Kingman II (1871- )
4. Edmund Bogardus Kingman (1881- )

Newton passed away in 1937 at the age of 99.^[4] He is buried in the West Lawn Memorial Park in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Newton H. Kingman Collection. Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. (The Newton H. Kingman collection contains letters and postcards that Kingman, a nonagenarian and Civil War veteran, wrote to Judge Edward D. Shurtleff of Marengo, Illinois, about politics, his genealogy, and other topics. The collection also includes a biography of Kingman and a newspaper clipping.)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pedigree Resource File, database, FamilySearch (accessed 2017-04-11), entry for Newton Hawes Kingman.
3. ↑ United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch (9 November 2014), Edmund Kingman, Sugar Creek, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States; citing family 474, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998, database, FamilySearch (11 December 2014), Newton Kingman, 05 Feb 1937; from "Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Lane, Oregon, certificate number 65, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Salem.
5. ↑ Find A Grave Index, database, FamilySearch (13 December 2015), Newton H. Kingman, ; Burial, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States of America, West Lawn Memorial Park; citing record ID 9437753, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also:

• Biography of Captain Newton H. Kingman a reprint of the book Life Story of Captain Newton H. Kingman, 90th Birthday Revelations, May 20, 1927.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4DP-BL3 : 12 April 2016), Edmund Kingman, Sugar Creek, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States; citing family 474, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW9Z-C4Q : 12 December 2017), Hannah Kingman, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6WY-ZX1 : 17 October 2014), Newton Kingman, Illinois, United States; citing p. 31, family 211, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,790.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMF-RB1 : 11 August 2016), Newton H Kingman, Logansport, Cass, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 30, sheet 351C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0268; FHL microfilm 1,254,268.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMRF-96F : accessed 11 April 2017), Newton H Kingman, Highland, Bangor & Hiddenwood Township Schools Bangor vVillage, Walworth, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 344, sheet 2B, family 44, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,555.

• "South Dakota State Census, 1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM4Y-3RM : 29 July 2017), N H Kingman, South Dakota, United States; citing State Historical Society, Pierre; FHL microfilm 2,281,694.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXR-TTV : accessed 13 April 2019), Nestor H Kingman, Selby Ward 2, Walworth, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 435, sheet 4B, family 75, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1489; FHL microfilm 1,375,502.

• "South Dakota State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMH6-ZLY : 29 July 2017), Newton H Kingman; citing State Historical Society, Pierre; FHL microfilm 2,283,546.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M483-MBF : accessed 13 April 2019), Captain Newton H Kingman in household of William F Osburn, Eugene Ward 2, Lane, Oregon, United States; citing ED 243, sheet 3A, line 28, family 66, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1495; FHL microfilm 1,821,495.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC9L-GCX : accessed 11 April 2017), Newton H Kingman in household of Edmund B Kingman, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 60, sheet 4B, line 92, family 106, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1946; FHL microfilm 2,341,680.

• "Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZWP-MC9 : 11 December 2014), Newton Kingman, 05 Feb 1937; from "Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Lane, Oregon, certificate number 65, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Salem.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVW-TZDW : 13 December 2015), Newton H. Kingman, ; Burial, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States of America, West Lawn Memorial Park; citing record ID 9437753, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.