Brief Life History of Clara Huldean
When Clara Huldean Brighton was born on 11 August 1913, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Reuben Miller Brighton, was 26 and her mother, Lenora Jensine Frates, was 22. She married Charles Sidney Vary on 1 September 1936, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She died on 16 November 2003, at the age of 90.
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- Crebs, Clara Crebs, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clara Huldeon Brighton, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Clara Huldean Brighton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
habitational name from Breighton in East Yorkshire, on the river Derwent. This place is named with Old English beorht ‘bright’ or an unattested personal name Beohta + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The surname is unlikely to derive from Brighton in Sussex, which was known as Brighthelmestone until the end of the 18th century.
in East Anglia, a nickname from Middle English bright + eien ‘bright eyes’.
English:
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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