9230. Applegate, Lloyd R., A LIFE OF SERVICE: WILLIAM AUGUSTUS NEWELL. Toms River , NJ. 1994. 153p. Soft wraps.
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9230. Applegate, Lloyd R., A LIFE OF SERVICE: WILLIAM AUGUSTUS NEWELL. Toms River , NJ. 1994. 153p. Soft wraps.
9230. Applegate, Lloyd R., A LIFE OF SERVICE: WILLIAM AUGUSTUS NEWELL. Toms River , NJ. 1994. 153p. Soft wraps. William Augustus Newell (1817-1901) founded the U.S. Life Saving Service by getting a $10,000 appropriation tacked onto the Lighthouse Bill of 1848. Newell was a physician/surgeon, three-term congressman from New Jersey , the first term being with Abraham Lincoln with whom he roomed, governor of New Jersey and later Washington Territory , White House physician in 1865, Indian agent in the Northwest in his 70’s etc. For us, however, his extensive efforts in the establishment of the Life-Saving Service are of considerable interest and the author devotes fully one quarter of the book to these efforts, improvements in equipment and the memorial established by the New Jersey Legislature in 1896 commemorating his efforts. The only comprehensive account of the life’s work of this important figure. (F-). $19.95.