When John Bright was born on 26 March 1849, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, John Bright Jr, was 40 and his mother, Susan Pugh, was 38. He married Phebe Jane Smith on 18 December 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 8 April 1928, in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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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.
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Mary Ellen Allsop BIRTH 22 Feb 1856 DEATH 15 Oct 1858 (aged 2) BURIAL Richmond City Cemetery Richmond, Cache County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 59246365
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States
English: usually a nickname from Middle English bright ‘bright, good-looking, fresh-faced’ (Old English beorht ‘bright, shining’).
English: perhaps occasionally from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Briht, Beorht, from a short form of any of several Old English personal names of which beorht was the first element, such as Beorhtrīc ‘bright’ + ‘powerful’. Compare Bert .
Americanized form of German Brecht .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMy grandfather, John Bright (known as Jack to all his friends), was the youngest child of a family of six children born to John Bright (son of John Bright and Susanna Ginther) and Susan Pugh. They own …
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