Newton Jasper Earp (October 7, 1837 – December 18, 1928) was an
American pioneer
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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
Old West
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lawmen
Wyatt,
Virgil
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, and
Morgan Earp
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.
He was in the
Union army during the
Civil War
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, serving as a part of the
4th Iowa Cavalry
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Service
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, and eventually mustered out with the rank of
corporal
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. Departing the army in 1865 he went to
Missouri
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to farm on the land of his father near
Lamar, then lost an election for
constable
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five years later at Lamar. In 1871 he moved to
Kansas
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, near the town of
Stearling, Rice County where he was a
farmer
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and
pioneer settler, and thence to
Garden City, in which town he rose quickly, becoming
marshal
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for some time. He was said to have hunted
buffalo in 1873 near Peace, Kansas. He had also migrated to
Wyoming
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and
Nevada
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, probably settling in the towns of
Casper and
Paradise
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before moving to
California
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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
James
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and Virgil were close for their entire lives. 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
Civil War
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, Earp enlisted in the
Union Army (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
Engagement at Fredericktown, 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 American Civil War
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, he married Nancy Jane "Jennie" Adam in Marion County, Missouri
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on 12 Sep 1865. The newlyweds then joined his father and siblings in San Bernardino, California
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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 ]Lamar, Missouri
Lamar is a city in and the county seat of Barton County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 4,266. It is known as the birthplace of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States.
The Lamar city g ...
, 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, Wyatt; and their second son (born April 19, 1880) after his younger brother, Virgil
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.[
]
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 Sacramento, California
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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 Sacramento
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's East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.[
]
References
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External links
''Earp Family History''
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