Published as it appeared on April 3, 1891, in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Page 1, Column 4.
NEWTON. — (Died) In this city, March 31, 1891, William Edwin Newton, aged 26 years, 8 months and 27 days.
Dr. Newton was born on his father’s farm near Philomath July 4, 1864, where he passed his childhood years. In 1884 he graduated at the Agricultural College in this city (Corvallis), and began the study of medicine. He attended the Ann Arbor Institute about two years and finally graduated from the Bellevue Hospital College, of New York, in 1888, and in the same year was married in Spokane Falls to Miss Mamie Frink, of Ann Arbor. He engaged in his profession with success in Washington, until failing health compelled him to retire from practice and a few months ago he returned to his old home, in this county, completely reduced by consumption. At the time of his death Dr. Newton was sojourning in Corvallis under medical treatment.
On Wednesday the remains were conveyed to Philomath by train at which place the funeral services were held, after which the interment occurred at the Newton cemetery.
Dr. Newton was much esteemed by all acquaintances. The sorrow from his early demise is general, as he was widely known as an ambitious, upright and intelligent young man, who required only the physical resources to accomplish the grand purpose to which he had too faithfully devoted his energies.
