. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. asher,and when he was only three years old was taken, with the restof the family, to a new home at Saugerties, Ulster County, withwhich place he has since been identified. The boy was sent tothe local schools, which were of good order, and then to GlensFalls and Hudson academies. That was the extent of his school-ing. But he was an apt scholar, and not only mastered the les-sons set before him, but acquired a love of reading and a habitof intelhgent observation that promoted his further acquirementof knowledge. At the age of eighteen years he
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. asher,and when he was only three years old was taken, with the restof the family, to a new home at Saugerties, Ulster County, withwhich place he has since been identified. The boy was sent tothe local schools, which were of good order, and then to GlensFalls and Hudson academies. That was the extent of his school-ing. But he was an apt scholar, and not only mastered the les-sons set before him, but acquired a love of reading and a habitof intelhgent observation that promoted his further acquirementof knowledge. At the age of eighteen years he left school for practical busi-ness life. His first employment was as a clerk in a store atSaugerties. There he remained for a year, showing himself acompetent and energetic business man. Then his health brokedown, and he was invalided for six months. Then he becameshipping-clerk in a store at Maiden, and for two years didexcellent work in that place. His third occupation was in theSouth, whither he went in 1881, and engaged in the turpentine 109. ^?^^^^^-^^^-^^-^^J^^^-c^.^^^^J^ -.!f^,^*^^v, NKWHURY ] i i ^^ 12, LawtonMaria Lawton,New Koehelle, ^ The Lawton family car^ti -;hire, F ai, -1 ?--^ elIslaiTii. cUl Neck, New- they have sir. Newbiuy 1 th^ ---r^ ? untry iii early colonial V ith Roger Williams, were t, Rho- nd, where the v;S on nd of Rhodf hester, England,? 1, and n re of -iiege, iS YVO- other s, and maj iuties ivate c! NEWBURY DAVENPORT LAWTON NEWBURY DAVENPORT LAWTON was born October12, 1852. His father, Cyrus Lawton, was a grandson ofGeorge Lawton of Newport, Rhode Ishmd, and his mother, SarahMaria Lawton, was a granddaughter of Newbury Davenport ofNew Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. The Lawton family came to this country in early colonialtimes from Cheshire, England, and, with Roger Williams, wereamong the original settlers at Newport, Rhode Island, where theelder branch of the family still resides on the island of RhodeIsland. The Davenpo
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