BIOGRAPHY OF HON. JOHN P. NEWELL of Manchester NH
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Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, 
including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; 
a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, 
newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police 
and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, 
cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of 
the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the 
councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the 
cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of 
the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; 
and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. 
Clark; 1875
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THE HON. JOHN P. NEWELL
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John Plumer Newell was born July 29, 1823 at Barnstead, NH. He is the
son of William H. and Olive (Dennett) Newell, who are now living, and
was one of thirteen children, of whom all but one survive. They are as
follows, in the order of birth, Moses D. of Elo, Wisconsin; Betsey H.,
the wife of David Clark of Farmington; Mary F., the wife of John Hanscom
of Northwood; Charles D. of Concord; John P., the subject of this
sketch; Harriet, the wife of Charles S. Emerson of Pittsfield; Samuel A.
of Cato Falls, Wisconsin; William J. of Lawrence, Mass.; Olive, the 
wife of N.E. Cate of Northwood; Albert M. of Gilmanton; Lafayette V.
of Portsmouth; Arthur C. of Farmington.
  Mr. Newell spent his early life upon his father's farm, acquiring an
education in the high school at Barnstead and fitting for college at
the academies in Rochester, Pittsfield and GIlmanton. He entered
Dartmouth College in 1845 and graduated in 1849 at the head of his 
class. After graduating he taught the academy at Pittsfield, studying
law meanwhile with A.F.L. Norris, until March 1851, when he came to
Manchester to take charge of the high school, which he taught until the
summer term of 1853. He then resumed the study of law in the office of
S.H. and B.F. Ayer of this city and was admitted in August to the bar
of Hillsborough County.  Early in the winter of 1853 he opened an
office in Manchester and continued in the practice of his profession
until the spring of 1855, when he resumed charge of the high school,
continuing its principal until the fall of 1862. In May 1863 he became
principal of Pinkerton Academy at Derry NH and held the position until
the summer of 1865, when he returned to Manchester, where he has since
made his home, being engaged in general business.
  Mr. Newell was elected by the city councils in February 1873, mayor
of Manchester and was one of its representatives in the legislature
in 1872 and 1874. He was elected in 1856 president of the first
Young Men's Christian Association in this city and served one year and
since 1869 has been the president of the present Association. He has
been since 1872 a deacon of the Hanover Street church, since 1868
president of the society connected with it and for ten years was
superintendent of its Sunday school.
  Mr. Newell married, August 14, 1855, Mary W., daughter of the late
Chief Justice Samuel D. Bell, by whom he had one child, who died in
infancy. His first wife died August 28, 1858, and he married
January 15, 1863, Elizabeth M., daughter of the Hon. T.T. Abbot,
formerly mayor of the city, by whom he has one child, Mary Bell,
now living.
  Mr. Newell is a fine scholar, a Christian gentleman and a pleasant
agreeable man. He has always, whether mayor of the city, teacher of the
high school or president of the Young Men's Christian Association, of
which he has been so earnest a supporter, exerted an elevating influence
upon those with whom he has come in contact. He is an able and popular
speaker and while in the legislature was a member of commanding
influence. He is painstaking, methodical, conscientious, in whatever
position he is.  If his nature was as aggressive as his convictions
are just and his principles strong, he could easily become one of the
most popular and influential men in the city.

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