Lt. Isaac Newell

This is misplaced this Isaac would have been 115 yo in 1826.

Shortly after Milledgeville became the capital of Georgia, there came to this state, from Southington, Conn., a young man seeking his fortune—Isaac Newell by name. Milledgeville was only a frontier town when he settled there. With the exercise of his New England thrift and industry, he built up a very large commercial business and opened up what was probably the first branch store ever opened in Georgia. His main business was at Newell Hall, which, by the way, was the general civic auditorium, but he established branches both in Gordon and Eatonton and in the latter town in 1826, married Parmela, daughter of Matthew Duncan, and in this way became related to the Ectors and the Napiers. The colonial home now standing was built by the same contractor who came out to put up the first governor's mansion. Here grew up a family of rare distinction which made the old home, prior to the war between the States, a social rendezvous of the aristocracy of that day. http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/baldwin/history/other/gms312histor...