Born in Chenango county. New York, in 1836. Completing his college course in 1857, he came the same year to McGregor, Clayton county, Iowa, and engaged in the drug business, which he continued until 1879. In the meantime he served sixteen years in the city council of McGregor and four years in the State Senate, being chosen to the Twelfth General Assembly without opposition, and serving in that and the Thirteenth. In the latter he served on the committees on ways and means, state university, penitentiary, medical institutions, and compensation of public officers, being chairman of the last two. He was a cultivated gentleman, of agreeable manners, attentive to business, a ready speaker and a useful legislator. In 1879 he removed with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, and engaged in the wholesale drug trade. Soon thereafter his health began to give way. and he went to Nebraska, hoping the change would be beneficial, but he continued to fail, and died there in 1881. Mr. Newell was pleasantly remembered by his associates in the Senate, and by his former fellow citizens in Clayton county, where he was for more than a score of years a prominent and useful citizen.

Born in Chenango county. New York, in 1836. Completing his college course in 1857, he came the same year to McGregor, Clayton county, Iowa, and engaged in the drug business, which he continued until 1879. In the meantime he served sixteen years in the city council of McGregor and four years in the State Senate, being chosen to the Twelfth General Assembly without opposition, and serving in that and the Thirteenth. In the latter he served on the committees on ways and means, state university, penitentiary, medical institutions, and compensation of public officers, being chairman of the last two. He was a cultivated gentleman, of agreeable manners, attentive to business, a ready speaker and a useful legislator. In 1879 he removed with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, and engaged in the wholesale drug trade. Soon thereafter his health began to give way. and he went to Nebraska, hoping the change would be beneficial, but he continued to fail, and died there in 1881. Mr. Newell was pleasantly remembered by his associates in the Senate, and by his former fellow citizens in Clayton county, where he was for more than a score of years a prominent and useful citizen.