from the Columbia School of Mines in 1877. He assisted in the geological survey of Ohio and was appointed Assistant Geologist on the scientific expedition to the Black Hills in 1876. Newton was a noted geologist and a recognized expert in iron and steel metallurgy. Newton worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1879. He had two children by a first marriage: a daughter, Frances Maria Newton (1824-1912), born in Albany, New York and a son George, born in 1822, who pre-deceased him. 1862) seems to have worked with the family to furnish the ships of the People's Line. He also owned the steamship New World and was the founder of the People's Line between Albany and New York City. A sailing card in the collection identified him as the master of the DeWitt Clinton (Sloop : 1825) in 1830.
is listed on several documents as a merchant and ship master. His father, Abner Newton, is listed as a Revolutionary War veteran from the colony of New York. Isaac Newton would not live to see the completion of this project, as he died on September 25, 1884.
As chief engineer for the department, Newton developed and designed the Croton Aqueduct. On March 15, 1881, Newton was appointed chief engineer of the Department of Public Works of the City of New York. On March 3, 1880, Newton was elected as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a member of the United States Court of Claims in the Monitor cases and was a trustee of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Rolling Stock Company, Burlington and Southwestern Railway, International Railways of Nova Scotia, and the New York Rapid Transit Commission. Over the course of the next decade, Isaac Newton was engaged with the railways of Prince Edward Island, U.S. From 1871 to 1872, Newton was an assistant to McClellan in the Department of Docks of the City of New York. In June of 1869, the Secretary of the Navy appointed him to a Navy board to examine the condition and needs of the steamships in the Navy. By 1868, Newton was working with former general George McClellan reconstructing the Stevens' Steam Battery at Hoboken. On February 8, 1865, he resigned his commission in the Navy and took charge, as engineer, of the Broad Top Coal Company's Works (Kemble Coal and Iron Company). During the next three years, Newton was involved in the construction and preparation of plans and specifications for the construction of an Atlantic Coast ironclad fleet. He remained on board Monitor until August 1862, when transferred to the Office of the General Inspector of Ironclads, where he served as superintendent of construction. Upon the ship's completion in January 1862, Newton volunteered as First Assistant Engineer and participated in her voyage from New York to Hampton Roads and subsequently in the Monitor's historic confrontation with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia on March 9, 1862. Newton was transferred from the Roanoke, on November 20th, 1861, and in accord with John Ericsson and Alban Stimer's wishes, he was assigned to duties in connection with the construction of the USS Monitor. He served on the Roanoke, under Chief Engineer Alban Stimers, as part of the Federal blockade squadron off of Charleston Harbor. Navy, on June 14, 1861, and was ordered to report to the USS Roanoke. After passing his examinations, he was commissioned as First Assistant Engineer, U.S. At the start of hostilities in the Civil War, Newton sought a commission with the United States Navy. In 1859, Newton received his engineer's certificate from the State of New York. From there, Newton served as an assistant engineer on the People's Line and from 1857 to 1858, he served as an engineer on the Collins Line between New York and Liverpool. Under his father's tutelage, Newton worked in the Delamater (Phoenix Foundry) Iron Works in New York City and at the Novelty Iron Works. He studied civil engineering at the University of the City of New York, receiving his degree in 1856. was born in New York City on Augand attended the Columbia College Grammar School at Hamilton College in New York.
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