Background
POLK, Newton N. was born on July 24, 1888 in Tracy City. Tennessee;V Newton N. and Minnie E. (Turrentine) Polk.
POLK, Newton N. was born on July 24, 1888 in Tracy City. Tennessee;V Newton N. and Minnie E. (Turrentine) Polk.
M.M.I., Marion, Alabama, 1904-1906. B.G.A., Franklin, Tennessee, 1906-1907. Vanderbilt University, 1907-1909.
C.W.S. School, 1927; Advanced Course, Field Artillery School, 1928. Command and General Staff School, 1929.
Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery, 1911. First Lieutenant, 1916. Captain, 1917; Major, Field Artillery, National.
Army, 1918; Lieutenant Colonel, 1919. Major, A., 1920. With Thirteenth Field Artillery, Army Artillery, First Army. Corps Artillery, First Corps and Fifth Field Artillery, in France and Germany, 1918-1919.
Now on duty as lnstr., 62 Field Artillery Brigade, O. National.
Member: Masons, Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, Shriner. Sigma Chi. Clubs: Army and Navv (Washington, District of Columbia), Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland).
Spouse Elizabeth Stockton Dorsey, December 27, 1928, Baltimore, Maryland.