Brief Life History of Sylvester
When Sylvester Bradford was born on 17 November 1839, in Switzerland, Indiana, United States, his father, Jehial Bradford, was 35 and his mother, Abigail Sprague, was 27. He married Mary Ann Jones on 15 October 1864, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States for about 40 years. In 1880, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as farmer in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. He died on 26 April 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Hial Bradford, Indiana - "United States Census, 1840"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sylvester Bradford - birth: 17 November 1839; Cotton Twp, Switzerland, Indiana, United States
- Sylvester Bradford, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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1841 · Indiana Nears Bankruptcy
The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, Cheshire, Wiltshire and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
History: This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times. Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, "which no American can mention without abhorrence".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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