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Lewis Newlon, was the founder and promotor of Fairview. He was born December 15, 1878 at Lincoln, Nebraska, but to him, Montana was his home. He came to what was to be Fairview in 1903. He built a claim shack which was a bit larger than most claim shacks. It had five rooms and was built of sod. It was the first house built on the townsite of Fairview.\Various lines of industry were begun in the Fairview area before the coming of the railroad, which brought a real boom to the area. Mr, Newlon...
