Brief Life History of Harry Delbert
When Harry Delbert Brighton was born on 3 June 1868, in Milford, Geary, Kansas, United States, his father, Jonas Valentine Brighton, was 21 and his mother, Matilda A Branscom, was 21. He married Edith Ellen Pidcock on 12 September 1901, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Louisburg Township, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1870. He died on 11 April 1937, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Harry A Brighton in household of Jonas Brighton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harry Delbert Brighton - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth: 3 June 1868; Milford, Geary, Kansas, United States
- Harry D Brighton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
Name Meaning
habitational name from Breighton in East Yorkshire, on the river Derwent. This place is named with Old English beorht ‘bright’ or an unattested personal name Beohta + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The surname is unlikely to derive from Brighton in Sussex, which was known as Brighthelmestone until the end of the 18th century.
in East Anglia, a nickname from Middle English bright + eien ‘bright eyes’.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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