Newton Jasper Earp (October 7, 1837 – December 18, 1928) was an

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born in Kentucky in 1837. He was the eldest child of

Nicholas Porter Earp Nicholas Porter Earp (September 6, 1813 – February 12, 1907) was the father of well-known Western lawmen Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan, and their lesser-known brothers James, Newton and Warren Earp. He was a justice of the peace, a farmer, c ...

and Abigail Storm. He was the half-brother of

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lawmen

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, and

Morgan Earp Morgan Seth Earp (April 24, 1851 – March 18, 1882) was an American sheriff and lawman. He served as Tombstone, Arizona's Special Policeman when he helped his brothers Virgil and Wyatt, as well as Doc Holliday, confront the outlaw Cochise C ...

. He was in the

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during the

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, serving as a part of the 4th Iowa Cavalry, and eventually mustered out with the rank of

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. Departing the army in 1865 he went to

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to farm on the land of his father near Lamar, then lost an election for

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five years later at Lamar. In 1871 he moved to

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, near the town of Stearling, Rice County where he was a

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and pioneer settler, and thence to Garden City, in which town he rose quickly, becoming

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for some time. He was said to have hunted buffalo in 1873 near Peace, Kansas. He had also migrated to

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and

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, probably settling in the towns of

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and

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before moving to

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. Newton was a Mason and died in 1928.

Early life and Civil War service

Newton was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Nicholas Earp and his first wife, Abigail Storm. His mother died when he was two. Newton Earp, and half-brothers

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and Virgil, were close for their entire lives. He married Jennie (last name unknown) in 1854. She died before 1887. He ran against his younger half-brother Wyatt for the office of constable. The Earps may have hoped to keep the job in the family one way or another. Wyatt won by 137 votes to Newton's 108, but their father Nicholas lost the election for justice of the peace in a very close four-way race. Following the outbreak of the

, Earp enlisted in the

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(along with both James and Virgil) in 1861. His brother James, fighting in the 17th Illinois Infantry Regiment, suffered a serious shoulder wound at the

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, in October 1861, and returned home early. Virgil and Newton, however, served the entire war. Newton Earp served with Company F of the Fourth Cavalry, Iowa Volunteers. He was promoted to fourth sergeant on January 1, 1865. Newton mustered out of the Army on June 26, 1865, in Louisville, Kentucky.''Newton Earp ''
picture archival webpage; Eagle Free Enterprises; accessed May 2017.

Post-Civil War

After Earp's return from the

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, he married Nancy Jane "Jennie" Adam in

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on 12 Sep 1865. The newlyweds then joined his father and siblings in

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in southern California, where most of the family had relocated. There, Newton worked as a saloon manager. Earp and family returned to the Midwest in 1868, first settling in

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, where Earp took up farming. The family later relocated to Kansas. The Earps had five children: Effie May, Wyatt Clyde, Mary Elizabeth, Alice Abigail, and Virgil Edwin. They named their first-born son (born August 25, 1872) after his not-yet-famous younger brother,

; and their second son (born April 19, 1880) after his younger brother,

Later life and death

Following another relocation to California, Newton became a carpenter, building homes in northern California and northwestern Nevada. Earp's first wife Jennie died on March 29, 1898, in Paradise Hill, Nevada, also known as Paradise Valley. Newton died at age 91 in

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on December 18, 1928. Only his brother Wyatt and sister Adelia survived him, with Wyatt dying almost a month later on January 13, 1929. He is buried in

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Cemetery.

References

Sources

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External links

''Earp Family History''
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Newton Newton most commonly refers to: * Isaac Newton (1642–1726/1727), English scientist * Newton (unit), SI unit of force named after Isaac Newton Newton may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Newton'' (film), a 2017 Indian film * Newton ( ...

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