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THOMAS J. NEWELL is a son of Harvey C. and Jane E. (Buck) Newell, and was born in Sherman, Chautauqua county, New York, February 29th, 1848. His grandfather, Jesse Newell, was a native of Connecticut and emigrated to Genesee county, this State, when in 1822 he came to Sherman, in this county, where he owned and cultivated a farm of two hundred acres, and where he died, aged ninety-one years. In politics he was a democrat. He took great delight in military affairs and was a captain in the New York State militia. Jesse Newell married Amarias Cole, by whom he had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, all living but Harvey C. (father). One of the sons, Thomas, served in the army in the late war. The maternal grandfather of Thomas J. Newell was Lansing L. Buck, a native of Connecticut, who came to Sherman, in this county, about the time the Newells did (1822), when this locality was a dense forest. He was a farmer by occupation, and an influential man among the pioneers here. Lansing L. Buck married Lydia Lewis and had four children, one son and three daughters; the son and one of the daughters are still living. Wallace, the son, is engaged in manufacturing in Bellville, N. J. Harvey C. Newell (father) was born in Connecticut, January 28, 1816, and died in Sherman, this county, in 1867, aged fifty-one years. His principal occupation was that of a farmer. In religion he was a member of the Methodist church, as was also his wife, and in politics he was a republican.

Harvey C. Newell was married to Jane E. Buck, by whom he had four children, three sons and one daughter: James H., who is in mercantile business at Belvidere, Nebraska; Thomas J.; Mary A., who married G. W. Tassell, a merchant, and lives in Iroquois, South Dakota; and Ziba J., who is a railroad conductor and lives in Brocton, this county.

Thomas J. Newell in 1869, engaged in the mercantile business at North Clymer, this county, where he kept a general store for eleven years, and in 1880 came to Sherman and opened a grocery store, in which he still continues. In politics he is a republican, and is now on his sixth term as town clerk, and is also village clerk. While he was at North Clymer he was appointed postmaster there. Thomas J. Newell was married November 24, 1870 to Sarah E. Pitt, a daughter of N. Pitt, and has two children, a son and daughter: Edith E. and Clifford H.