Brief Life History of Ethelbert Hewitt
When Ethelbert Hewitt Barton was born on 3 October 1850, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William Kilshaw Barton, was 22 and his mother, Malinda Jane Hewitt, was 24. He married Alice Elizabeth Jane Cook on 4 December 1878, in St. George Utah Temple, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Emery, Emery, Utah, United States in 1900 and Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 4 December 1923, in Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Monticello City Cemetery, Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States.
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- Ethelbert Barton in household of Wm K Barton, "United States Census, 1860"
- Ethelbert Hewitt Barton, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Hewett Barton in entry for William E. Barton, "Idaho, Jefferson Star, County Cemetery Records, 1800-2000"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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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