Newton (cities)

Newton 1 City (1990 pop. 16,700), seat of Harvey co., S central Kans., in an agricultural area; inc. 1872. It is a railroad division point with railroad shops and has a large mobile home industry in addition to oil wells. Machinery, motor vehicle parts, plastic products, glass, and furniture are also produced, and there is flour milling. The Chisholm Trail passed through the site. In the early 1870s, German Mennonites from Russia brought seed for what became the first hard winter wheat grown in Kansas. The city still has a large Mennonite population, and a monument to their ancestors is there. Bethel College is in North Newton.

2 City (1990 pop. 82,585), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston on the Charles River; settled before 1640, inc. as a city 1873. It comprises 14 residential villages. Industries include publishing and the manufacture of chemicals, precision instruments, and computers. Newton is known as a regional education center. The city is the seat of Andover Newton Theological School, Mount Ida College, Pine Manor College, and a campus of Boston College. Horace Mann , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Mary Baker Eddy , and Samuel Francis Smith lived in Newton.

New·ton ¹ / ˈn(y)oōtn/ a city in eastern Massachusetts, on the Charles River, west of Boston; pop. 83,829.

Newton, John (1822–95) army officer and military engineer, born in Norfolk, Virginia. Newton was chief of engineers from 1884 to 1886. Although Newton saw active service during the Civil War, his record as a leader of troops was uneven and he gained his greatest distinction as an engineer. He resigned from the army in 1886 to become commissioner of public works for New York City. During the Civil War Newton had participated in the Peninsular and Maryland campaigns (1862) and the Chancellorsville campaign (1863) before commanding a corps at Gettysburg (1863) and leading a division through the Atlanta campaign (1864). Early in the war he worked as assistant engineer in the construction of the defenses of Washington, D.C. (1861). His only field service prior to the Civil War was as chief engineer of the Mormon Expedition (1858).