Deseret News, The (Salt Lake City, UT) | 23 April 1997 Death: Elias Lemon Brinton Elias Lemon Brinton, 91, died 21 April 1997 of an extended illness. Born in Marion, Utah, son of Samuel LeRoy Brinton and Emma Jane Lemon. Married Maude Patterson, 22 May 1929 in Salt Lake LDS Temple. She preceded him in death 3 March 1969. Married Mignon Astle, 18 June 1971. Devoted active member of LDS Church. Survived by wife; children, Dr. Lyle P. Brinton; Beverly B. White; Sherry Brinton; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; brother, Wayne; sisters, Irma, Joan and Eugenia. Funeral services will be held Saturday, 26 April 1997 at 12 noon at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, where friends may call Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. and from 11-11:45 a.m. prior to the services. Interment, Larkin Sunset Lawn, 2350 E. 1300 So.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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Scottish: habitational name perhaps from a lost or unidentified place, although possibly brought to Scotland from one or more of the English Brintons under 2 below.
English: habitational name from Brinton in Norfolk, named in Old English as Brȳningtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) Brȳni’ (a personal name based on Old English bryne ‘fire, flame’), or from any of various other places with names of the same origin, such as Brineton in Staffordshire, Great Brington in Essex, Brimpton in Berkshire, Brimington in Derbyshire, Brenton in Devon, Brington in Cambridgeshire or (Great and Little) Brington in Northamptonshire.
History: William Brinton (1635–99) came from Staffordshire, England, to West Chester, PA, in 1684–85.
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