Brief Life History of Walter Herbert
When Walter Herbert Barton was born on 17 April 1869, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John Barton Jr., was 28 and his mother, Sarah Flint, was 24. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 18 February 1894, at the age of 24, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Walter Barton in household of John Barton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Walter Hurbert Barton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Walter Hurbert Barton, "Utah, State Archives Records, 1848-2001"
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World Events (6)
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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