When William Albert Compton was born on 15 March 1897, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, William Allen Compton, was 29 and his mother, Ester Anna Sofia Jansson, was 16. He died on 28 March 1897, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Bothwell, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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