Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

W. A. NEWTON, merchant, Butler County, was born in the county of Warren, 
September 14, 1857, and educated at the Morgantown Seminary, and 
commenced business at Woodbury, September 16, 1884.  His father is John 
Wesley Newton, who was a native of Tennessee, born in 1827, and removed 
to Warren County, Ky., when our subject was but eight years of age.  
Twenty-one years ago the family removed to Butler County.  John Wesley 
Newton was married in Warren County to Miss Melvina Kirkland.  This 
union was blessed with eight children, of whom W. A. Newton is the 
eldest, William Shakespeare, Henry Clay, Bailey Peyton, George B. 
McClellan, Zachariah Taylor, Julia Ann and Minniozella.  Mr. Newton has 
been engaged extensively in farming and lumbering, and owns a farm of 
800 acres of land in the finest section of Butler County.  Our subject, 
W. A. Newton, is one of the largest dealers in general merchandise in 
this locality, including boots and shoes, groceries, dry goods, farm 
implements, etc.

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