Brief Life History of Tyler Hyrum
When Tyler Hyrum Barton was born on 29 March 1896, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Hyrum Byron Barton, was 43 and his mother, Laura Jane Bowdidge Berry, was 31. He married Elsie Layton on 24 February 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 7 May 1984, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Tyler Barton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Tyler Hyrum Barton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Tyler Hyrum Barton, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center
The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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