The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-14
THE LATE PROF. NEWTON.

 The Funeral Services Will Take Place
 To-Morrow Afternoon-Many Trib-
 utes to His Memory.
 The funeral services of the late Prof Hubert r. Newton of Yale will take place tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at 4 o'clock at his residence, No. 23S Prospect street. Extended notices of his life and career appear in most of the leading New York papers. From the obituary in the New York Evening Post the following is taken
 "Notoften has an hereditary and natal gift been manifested more clearly than in the life of Prof. Newton, whose fa- ther, William Newton, built the Buffalo section of the Erie canal, and whose mother, Lois (Butler) Newton. was famed for her mathematical powers among her neighbors in Sherburne, Chenango county, N. r., where their son, the subject of this sketch, was born March 19, 1880. Both parents, who traced an ancestry of the richest Puri- tan blood back to the first settlers of Connecticut, had migrated from that state to Sherburne when many parts of CGulIdl NGW OLh SldlC NClC obiii eb wilderness. In that township they bought later a large farm, which still remains in the family. Ten children were born to them, seven sons and three daughters, Of the sons. Dr. Ho- mer Newton, became prominent spec ialist in diseases of the eye and ear in Brooklyn A second Albro, has ac- cumulated fortune in the lumber bus mess at the same city; and two others, Isaac and Warren, have won honorable and exalted names at Norwich, N. Y., the one as a lawyer, the other as a bank president. One of the sisters has passed large part of her life as mis- sionary in India.
 Prof Newton, as boy and youth, lit ted for Yale at the schools of Sher- burne, even then giving early promise of those early mathematical tastes which were to fruit so richly in ma turer years He entered college at the early age of sixteen during the second term of freshman year in the class of | 1850 In the college records he ap- pears as a speaker at the junior exhi- | bition of his class with India" as his l theme, and in the graduation list he won an "oration' stand though his | name is not upon the list of commence ment speakers. More significant of his l gift was his winning of the first prize l for the solution of mathematical prob l lems. Classmates who were graduated | with him in 1850 were the Rev. Leonard 1 Woolsey Bacon, Prof. Bonbright of Northwestern university, Prof. Brush l of Upper Iowa university, Prof. Easter | of Georgia university, Prof. Kellogg 1 (valedictorian) of the University of California, Prof, Waring of Columbia university, Washington, D. C., and Ellis l H. Roberts. After graduation, for tive and one half years, he studied higher mathematics in Sherburne and in New Haven, was appointed tutor at Yale 1T 1853, taking full charge of the depart ment of mathematics during the illness of Prof. Stanley, and two years later his rare powers being then fully reveal. ed, he was elected professor at the early age of twenty y-five-probably the young. est graduate of the college whom hei corporation has ever promoted to full professorship.
 I After giving a sketch of his work as a scholar, the main features of whicf were printed in our yesterdays issue the Post concludes as follows: IT personality Professor Newton was mos gracious and kindly, and, in all things simplicity itself. He was tireless i'll his efforts to aid poor students at Nalt seeking an education, and not few have owed to him the success of theil college careers The ordeals of hi:
 
 by his love of problems not in the text book It at times took gentler shape when the professor went to the black board to demonstrate briefly q problem of his own in which he scared away or the wings of his 'transeendental curves until, unwittingly, the whole recita tion hour was consumed. His interes
 in politics was ever constant and in tense, and he never fiexed views which were of the old democratic state rights l type in times when he was the only democrat in the Yale faculty Elected an alderman of New Haven a fev years ago in the strong republican Firs
 ward of that city, he was as faithfu
 to municipal duties as in the class
 room, defying his party caucus ant
 voting for the impeachment of tn members of a Big Four combination
 for footing the local board of publi lworks.
 Professor Newton married, April IA
 1851, Anna C., daughter of the Rev
 Robert Stiles, at one time pastor Q
 the Mercer Street Presbyterian churcl
 in New York city and subsequently, 0 | a. Presbyterian church at New Haven IShe, with two daughters, survives him.