James M. Newell, Family Files

Submitted by Natalie Schutz [natalie.schutz@sbcglobal.net] July 24, 2009

Life Story of RevLife Story of Rev. James M. Newell, D.D. 
An Autobiography 
Born November 21, 1840
Died June 25, 1932 
Edited by Margy Henry 1977 
Published by Margy Henry
Escondido, California 92025 
  
An autobiography written for his children, Grandchildren and 
great-grand-children In July 1931 in his ninety-first year. 


MY FAMILY 

I have been telling my life as if it had been all my own. It has not even been 
half my own. A whole lot of it at first came from two devoted and splendid 
sisters and from others. Later it has been combined and associated with two 
splendid women. Neither of these women needed a man to give them a place in the 
world. They were not vines needing to be supported by being twined about some 
strong tree — they could stand alone. But as the fashion of the world goes, they 
thought best to join up with a man and make a team. 
  
My first wife, Harriet Atwood Newell, was a very capable teacher. She was 
interested in all the worthwhile things in the world in which she lived. She 
could have made her contribution to human welfare without the help of a husband. 
But having a husband and two children her scope of life became enlarged. That 
husband and those children owe her a debt of service they will never be able to 
pay. 
  
Ella E. Newell, who I am very glad is still with me, though very different, has 
been well qualified and endowed in spirit and ability for making success in the 
best things. She began early in deep interest and study in that difficult but 
beautiful science of the kindergarten. Later, she has been able to give herself 
in a most helpful way to other enterprises for the good of society. She has been 
an invaluable help in promoting the welfare of young womanhood, and she has 
started not a few boys on a way to a better life. As a director of the Los 
Angeles YWCA she has well filled and is now filling a very important place. She 
is closely connected with the business girls’ home built by her brother in 
memory of their mother, where some two hundred girls are cared for to their 
great delight and benefit. She has also proved herself endowed with a business 
capacity such as we used to think belonged only to men. She has proved that if 
she had devoted her life to business she could easily have achieved success. 
  
My descendants at the present are in two groups, the elder group is a son and 
daughter, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, a little prince.  The 
other group is composed of one son.  These descendants are busy making their own 
life story. They are capable of making it and I leave them to write it. 
  
THE END 


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