Moses Newton.
Moses Newton, a younger brother of James H., was born in Hubbardston, Mass., Oct. 27, 1833. He lived on his father's farm until fourteen years of age, receiving his education in the schools of that town and at Deerfield Academy. He remained on the farm until past thirty years of age, being engaged, however, with his father and brothers in the lumbering business, when he removed to Holyoke, where he engaged in the paper-business as superintendent of the Hampden Paper Company, until it was destroyed by fire in the year 1870, when he went to Miller's falls as treasurer of the Buckus Vise Company, in which capacity he remained until the year 1872, when the company was united with the Miller's Falls Manufacturing Company, after which he engaged in the lumbering business for the following two years with his brothers. After this he entered into a copartnership with Mr. James Ramage for the purpose of manufacturing building paper. In the year 1877 he, in connection with Mr. Ramage and Mr. George A. Clark, organized the Newton Paper Company, for the purpose of manufacturing building, carpet lining, and wrapping papers. The mill has been greatly enlarged during the past year. When organized the capacity was only one ton per day, while they are now making the enormous quantity of ten tons per day, being more than that of any other mill of the kind in the United States. Mr. Newton was married in 1859 to Miss Maria B. Arms, daughter of Borden Arms, Esq., of Deerfield, and has four children,—Laura M., born March, 1861; Susie, born in October, 1863; Alice C., born in February 1808; and Herbert Arthur, born in December, 1875.
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