When Ebenezer Harris Harrington was born in 1837, in Salem, Salem, Washington, New York, United States, his father, Andrew Herrington, was 28 and his mother, Lydia Harris, was 38. He married Sarah Burrell on 24 November 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Salem, Washington, New York, United States in 1850 and Avon Township, Coffey, Kansas, United States in 1860. He died in 1905, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 68.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
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