In which county was Isaac Newton born?
Early life of Isaac Newton Early life of Isaac Newton The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the "Principia". It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1642, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the "Principia Mathematica", in 1685. Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 Old Style (which was 4 January 1643 on the Gregorian calendar, which is now used) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. (At the time of Newton's birth, England
Isaac Newton Walker Isaac Newton Walker Isaac Newton Walker (December 18, 1803 – September 14, 1899) was a pioneer farmer and merchant in Illinois, designer of the third Fulton County courthouse, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Isaac Newton Walker, generally referred to as Newton Walker, was born on December 18, 1803, in Madison County, Virginia, the son of Merriweather Walker and Elizabeth Kirtley. On May 14, 1834, Walker married Ann Eliza Simms (1814-1904), daughter of Colonel Reuben C. Simms and Frances M. Graves, in Madison County, Virginia. The couple moved to Lewistown, Illinois,