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given will show. The grandfather of Mr.
Newton, Ezekiel Newton, married Caro-
line Northrop, a sister of Lord Northrop.
Franklin Newton was born December
19, 1838, died January 27, 1894. He had
a public school education, and followed
the occupation of farming at Washing-
ton, Connecticut, all his life, except dur-
ing the period in which he served in the
Civil War. He married Matilda Morgan,
a descendant of a well-known New Eng-
land family, always noted for its skill in
financial matters which culminated in the
person of the late J. Pierpont Morgan.
Charles Hollister Newton was born
May 3, 1877, at Washington, Connecticut,
and there passed the years of his childhood
and youth. He gained his education
in the excellent schools of that town
and proved himself an unusually good
student. He left the parental roof upon
completing his studies and went to Tor-
rington where he secured a position with
a large manufacturing concern of that
city, in the employ of which he received
a rapid promotion. Later he was sent to
Newark, New Jersey, to represent his
firm, and there remained a considerable
period. He then received an offer of the
secretaryship of the Osborne-Stephenson
Manufacturing Company of Plainville,
and returned to that town to take up his
new duties. He still holds this important
office at the present time. Mr. Newton is
very prominent in the general life of
Plainville and belongs to many important
organizations and orders there. He is a
prominent Mason, being a member of
Seneca Lodge, No. 55, Free and Accepted
Masons, as well as of the higher divisions
of the order. Fie attends the Congrega-
tional church of Plainville and is prominent
in the work of the congregation. He
is a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
On September 15, 1894, Mr. Newton
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was united in marriage with Sara L. Wadhams,
born October 16, 1876. To Mr.
and Mrs. Newton one child has been
born, Roger Hooker Newton, June 17,
1909. He began his schooling at the age
of four and gives token of possessing
unusual mental powers, already showing
a marked originality in his ideas and the
ability to reason in the manner of an
adult.
TOLLES, Charles Levi,
Business Man.
Henry Tolles, the immigrant ances-
tor, who was born in England, and set-
tled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, as
early as 1669, removing later to Saybrook
in that colony. He was twice married.
By his first wife, he had a son, Henry,
mentioned below.
(II) Henry (2) Tolles, son of Henry
(1) Tolles, was in New Haven, April 15,
1693. He married Rebecca Thomas,
daughter of Daniel and Rebecca Thomas,
of New Haven. Children : Henry, mentioned
below; Rachel, born 1696; Sam-
uel, 1698; Daniel, 1700; Ebenezer, 1703;
Dorothy, 1705; Experience, 1708.
(III) Henry (3) Tolles, son of Henry
(2) Tolles, was born in 1694, in New
Haven, and died there in 1772. He mar-
ried Deborah Clark, February 15, 1727.
She died in New Haven, in 1788. Children,
born in New Haven : Elnathan,
born December 15, 1729, died in infancy;
Dorothy, September 17, 1731 ; Francis,
December 30, 1733; Henry, mentioned
below; Mabel, August 21, 1738; Elnathan,
January 9, 1741 ; Dorothy, September 3,
1743; Rachel, December 1, 1745; Deborah,
July 27, 1 75 1 ; Philemon, May 8,
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(IV) Henry (4) Tolles, son of Henry
(3) Tolles, was born at New Haven, August
8, 1736. He married Hannah Clark,