Person Sheet

Name James Covington NEWTON Birth 20 Jan 1935, Big Rapids, MI Death 10 Feb 2003, Williams, OR Occupation Clock Repairman, Inventor Education Big Rapids High School 1953 w. honors; Orange Coast College Religion agnostic Father Roy NEWTON Ph.D. (1904-1974) Mother Dorothy Vernon CRAMMOND (1905-1981)
Spouses:
1 Orsola Blanche MARNEY Birth 21 May 1927, New Mexico Occupation Housewife Education completed 8th grade(?) Religion Christian Father Homer Melvin MARNEY Mother Bertha HAWKINS
Children: James Michael (1964-)

Dad was a good man in most ways and a bad man in some. He told me "If you aren't pissing off 10% of the population, you aren't doing anything worth while." Of course, he also said "Son: Sincerity is the KEY. If you can fake that, you've got it made." He was an excellent electo-mechanical engineer with many interesting devices to his name. His finest legacy is in the form of two perfect live steam train engines, both 4-8-4 Northerns. One standard guage and one O-guage. Both have been fired and run on propane although they were more often run on compressed air from tank cars, pulled behind, made from converted propane bottles. These engines were made, not from kits, but from scratch in his machine shop over many years.

1935 – Birth and Death in the Newton Family by Glen Edward Newton - the story of James Covington Newton's birth and Luther Samuel NEWTON death on the same weekend in 1935.

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