Brief Life History of Horace Wood
When Horace Wood Barton was born on 12 May 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, James Barton, was 36 and his mother, Eliza Ann Barton, was 28. He married Agnes Lenora Hunter on 12 June 1901, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marriott, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1895. He died on 11 April 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Horace W Barton in household of James Barton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Horace W. Barton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Horace W Barton, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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