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Newton, Kansas
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A city and the county-seat of Harvey county, Kansas, U.S.A., about 27 m. N. of Wichita. Pop. (1905, state census) 6601. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (of which it is a division point and which has shops here), and the Missouri Pacific railways. Newton is the centre of the settlements of the German-Russian Mennonites, a thrifty people, who immigrated in 1873 and subsequently; Bethel College (opened 1893) is a Mennonite secondary school, and there is a Mennonite hospital. Newton is a supply and distributing point for the surrounding agricultural and stock-raising region, and has various manufactures. The municipality has natural gas for heating, lighting and manufacturing. Newton was first settled in 1871, was chartered as a city in 1872, and in 1910 adopted a commission form of government.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Newton, Kansas'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/newton-kansas.html. 1910.
