McVEY, Newton

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 163

Newton McVEY, physician and surgeon, Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was 
born 11 October 1845 in Marion County, Indiana. He graduated at the Indiana 
Medical College, and received his diploma on 26 February 1875. He had been 
in the practice of medicine some time in the city of Indianapolis [Marion 
County, Indiana] before he graduated. In 1875 he made a permanent location 
in this village [Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin], and has thereby become one 
of Alma's staunchest citizens. Mr. M. [Newton McVEY] was for a short time in 
the U. S. A. [U. S. Army] as drummer. He enlisted in Company A, 
Forty-seventh Indiana, in 1865, and was discharged the same year. [The Civil 
War officially ended in early April 1865.]

In the same year he came to Alma [1875?] he married Nancy L. FURGASON, who 
was also born in Marion County [Indiana]. They have two children, Elsie and 
Carrie. [The McVEY family is enumerated in the 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo 
County, Wisconsin: Newton McVEY, age thirty-five, physician, born in 
Indiana, about 1845 from his census age, which agrees with the year of birth 
given in the biography; his wife, Nancy L. McVEY, age thirty-six, born in 
Indiana, about 1844, to parents who were both born in Ohio; and two 
daughters: (1) Elsie McVEY, age three, born in Wisconsin, about 1877, to 
parents born in Indiana; and (2) Martha C. McVEY, age two, born in 
Wisconsin, about 1878 by her census age, to parents born in Indiana. Also in 
the household is a servant unrelated to Newton McVEY, namely Monica 
SCHNEIDER, single, age eighteen, she and her parents all born in Wisconsin. 
Bracketed material added by submitter (who is not researching these surnames) 
to support and clarify information given in the biography and to raise 
questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly