When Compton was born in 1818, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Isaac Compton, was 21 and his mother, Barbara Smith, was 18. He died in 1818, at the age of 0.
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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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