HISTORY LESSONS: Newton Major, or ‘old Maj’

Newton Major or “ole Maj” to his friends in Meeker was a very early resident of southwest Wyoming and Northwest Colorado. The first record of him in the West was his marriage to Nellie Reed in December of 1877. In the 1880 Carbon County Wyoming census near the Snake River, he was listed as general merchant, married. I could not locate his wife on the census. Everyone else on the page was an army officer…