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Walter Colgate Newell 1875 - 1942

Walter Colgate Newell was born in 1875 to Andrew Newell and Frances Colgate (Lord) Newell, and had siblings Albert Henry Newell, Frederic Lord Newell, Edward Williams Newell, Clinton Newell, Harriet Grace Newell, Eva Helen (Newell) Fuller, Andrew Valentine Newell, Francis Sargent Newell, and Abbie Marie (Newell) Thwaites. He married Violet Edith (Moore) Newell, and had children Daisy Frances "Budge" (Newell) Blair, Laurence Colgate Newell, Lancelot Huntly Newell, James Moore Newell, and Lindsay Newell. Walter Newell died at age 66 years old on December 8, 1942 in Saint Kilda East, VIC Australia, and was buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery in Springvale, Greater Dandenong City County.
Walter Colgate Newell
1875
December 8, 1942
Saint Kilda East, VIC, 3183, Australia
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  • Introduction

    The Argus, Melbourne. 17 July 1902. MARRIAGE. NEWELL. - MOORE. On the 5th July, at Presbyterian Manse, Perth, W.A., by the Rev. Mr. Gray, Walter Colgate, third son of Mr. Andrew Newell, Shawmut, Balaclava, to Violet Edith, third daughter of Mr. George Watton Moore, of Morelands, Princess street, Kew.
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    1942

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    December 8, 1942
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    Saint Kilda East, VIC 3183, Australia
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    Springvale Botanical Cemetery in Springvale, Greater Dandenong City County, VIC 3171, Australia
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  • Obituary

    The Argus, Melbourne. 9 December. NEWELL. - On December 8, Walter Colgate, of 5 Montague street, East St. Kilda, loved husband of Violet Edith, son of the late Andrew and Frances C. Newell, and father of Budge, Laurie, Dick ( deceased, 2nd A.I.F. ), Lyn, and Jim.
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In 1875, in the year that Walter Colgate Newell was born, on February 18th, the Mason County War, also called the Hoodoo War, began. In central Texas, a German-American mob broke into a jail with a battering ram and lynched two suspected cattle rustlers. Thus began a year of vigilante "justice."
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In 1888, at the age of merely 13 years old, Walter was alive when on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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