(This reproduction was printed from a digital file created...)
This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
https://www.amazon.com/Restoration-rebellious-William-Augustus-1817-1901/dp/B003U4WN3A?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003U4WN3A
William Augustus Newell was born on September 5, 1817 in Franklin, Ohio, United States. He was the son of James Hugh and Eliza D. (Hankinson) Newell of Freehold, New Jersey. His parents had temporarily moved to Ohio but returned to New Jersey when he was three years of age.
Newell attended school at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was graduated from Rutgers College in 1836. He received the Doctor of Medicine degree from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1839.
In 1839 Newell began the practice of medicine with his uncle at Manahawkin, Ocean County, New Jersey.
He went to Imlaystown and about 1844 settled at Allentown, New Jersey, where he built up a large and lucrative practice. The same year he began practice his attention was called to a shipwreck off the coast near his home, and, appalled at the loss of life when thirteen bodies were brought ashore, he began to experiment with lines and with a mortar to reach a wrecked vessel in the hope of preventing future accidents. He was so far successful that, eight years later when serving in Congress, he had plans for a life-saving service, which gave impetus to the establishment of a federal life-saving service that was adapted for the entire sea and lake coasts. He served two terms in Congress as a Whig, from 1847 to 1851, and then resumed practice in Allentown. In 1856 he had identified himself with the American party and was elected governor of New Jersey; he served two terms from 1857 to 1861. In these critical years he led in the unification of the interests of the American and Republican parties in the state. By 1860 he had become a Republican and was a delegate to the Republican convention at Chicago. Under Lincoln's administration he was appointed superintendent of the life-saving service in New Jersey. He was for a period examining surgeon of drafted soldiers in his state. In 1865 he returned to Congress for one term. He was defeated for reelection as he was in several later efforts to be elected to the House and to the Senate as well as to the governorship. Nevertheless he continued to keep a firm hold on party patronage in the state. In 1875 he became president of the New Jersey state board of agriculture, and his efforts were important in the establishment of the federal agricultural bureau. In 1880 President Hayes appointed him governor of Washington Territory, in which office he served four years. Then he was appointed Indian inspector for the same territory. He practised a year in Olympia and was resident surgeon in the soldiers' and sailors' home there. He returned to Allentown, New Jersey, in 1889, where he continued to practise until the time of his death.
(This reproduction was printed from a digital file created...)
Newell was married in early life to Joanna Van Deursen of New Brunswick, New Jersey, who died while he was governor of Washington Territory. They had three children.
