Harry Delbert Brighton

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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Family Time Line

Harry Delbert Brighton
1868–1937
Edith Ellen Pidcock
1873–1913
Marriage: 12 September 1901
Harry Russell Brighton
1902–1924
Florence Matilda Brighton
1905–1965
Frances Leona Brighton
1909–1920

Sources (52)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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’.

English:

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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