Brief Life History of Joseph Hammond
When Joseph Hammond Brinton was born on 8 April 1852, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, David Brinton, was 37 and his mother, Harriet Wollerton Dilworth, was 30. He married Mary Webster Howard on 10 June 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He immigrated to Kingdom of Hawaii in 1896 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 12 September 1915, in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Hammond Brenton in household of David Brenton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Joseph Hammond Brinton, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Joseph Hammand Brinton, "Hawaii, Collector of Customs, Ships' Passenger Manifests, 1843-1900"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
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
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Joseph Hammond Brinton
Joseph Hammond Brinton was born in Big Cottonwood April 8, 1852, and was the third boy of a family of nine. He was a husky youngster going barefooted all summer and when old enough helping his mother …
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