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Show 378 THE HISTORY OF MURR AY CITY , UTAH D. BRANSON BRINTON Born February 9, 1882, Holladay , Utah . Married Ethel Simons of Payson. Cam e to Mur ra y in 1909 following attendance at U of U in Electrical Engineering. He was a member of the engin eering class which surveyed and constructed the bloc k " U" on the mountains near th e Unive rsity. He was a charter member and second president of Sigma Chi f raternity. He was employed by Th e Progress Company , local power generat ing and distributing company. The Progress Company , or ganized by the John P. Cahoon interests , provided light and power to the southern part of Salt Lake County. When the Progress Company , with main office at 4792 South State , ceased op eration in the late 1910's, Mr. Brinton and a fellow employee , George Hinley , took over the retail business and store facilities . A year later, in June , 1921 , Mr. Brinton bought out his partner and formed the Brinton Electric which rema ined at 4792 South State. The LOS Church assignments of Mr. Brinton took him from Superintenden t of the MIA of the Murray 1st Ward to the office of Bishop in 1915 and he served until 1927. He had lived at Gordon Terrace (4150 South State ), in th e Sabi n hom e on east 45th South , and th e Morris rome at 398 Vine Street before settling at 433 Vin e whe re he lived until his death in 1956. He serv ed as Secreta ry of Murray's business organization , the Comm erc ial Club . In partnership with hi s broth er-in-l aw , Marr O. Simons , from February 1, 1922 until 1928, they operated the Simons-Brinton Undertaking Company at 125 East 48th South and later at 4915 South State. The two-story building served as Mortuary and living quarters for Marr O. Simons and his young bride , Helen Hunt. Mr. Brinton , after being released as Bi shop , served in the High Council of the Cottonwood Stake which encompassed the area from Holladay and Cottonwood on the east to Taylorsvill e and Bennion on the west . Later he was President of the Cottonwood Stake High Priests and was an active LOS Patriarch at the time of his death. He and Mrs. Brinton were set apart LOS Temple workers for more than 25 years . He was fr equently asked to speak at funerals and spoke with kindness and compassion to hundreds of families thru out the valley in their time of bereave ment. He was owner-manager of Brinton Electric from 1921 to 1947, at which time the business was incorporated and he continued as President until 1956. He planned and installed electrical wiring systems for homes , businesses, schools and churches throughout the valley and was a pioneer in the electric app liance industry in Utah. Brinton Electric is Utah 's oldest GE appliance dealership. Five children were born to this couple - David B. , Barbara (Mrs. Paul Wise ), Sherman S. , Marshall K. and Eleanor (Mrs. Horace Christensen) . (Mate rial submitted by Ma rs hall Brinton.) EDWIN BROWN, PIONEER OF 1853 Edwin Brown began his life in Berkshire , England , June 24 , 1841 . His father was Jonathan and his mother , Sarah Cousins Brown. His father was a baker by trad e, but young Edwin served an apprenticeship in a button factory . When Ed wi n was 12 years old , the ship , Ellen Maria , carried th e Brown family to America . They depa rted th eir hom elan d January 18, 1853. The family consisted of Edwin 's parents , two brothers. Henry and Ch arl es , four sisters , Elizabeth , Emma, Sara h Ann and the baby , Maria Ellen . The plains we re crossed in th e Claudius V. Spencer Company and they arrived in Salt Lak e City September 21 , 1853. Th e family settled in Murray on a large farm east of State Street and north of 4800 South . Here th ey built a one-room log house on the Mill Race and here Ed w in grew to manhood. He often told stories of w restling with th e Indians. On Jun e 24. 1860, his brother , Ch arles , died wh en he was shot by an Indi an at Indi anol a. On July 5th of that same year, his fath er, Jon athan , passed away leavi ng Sarah , w ith the help of the two boys , to run the farm. According to Engli sh c ustom , the old farm we nt to the old es t son , Henry Brown. In April 1862. th e Bro w n family was asked to provide one yo un g man to res pond to a requ est Pr es id ent Abr aham Lincoln had ex tended to President Brigh am Young for men to guard the mail route and teleg raph lines between North Pl atte Rive r below Ind epend en c e Rock to Fort Brid ger Edwin answered that ca ll and met with Presid en t Young at Eag le Gate w here the Presid ent counseled with the young men and gave them a bl essing . Edwin always said he knew that Bri gham Young was a Prophet of God because he promi sed those boys that not one of them would lose th eir lives if they lived th e commandments of God . All w ho lived worthily did return hom e unharm ed The group was under th e lead ership of Captain Lot Smith . On June 12, 1865, Edwin and Desdamon a Fox were married by Bishop Reynolds Cahoon . Fam ily tradition has it that they were married on ? dare as they were return ing home from a da nce in South Jordan . On the way home the two couples traveling together dared each other to ge; married . After Edwin and Desdamona were married , the other couple changed their minds. The newlyweds were then afraid to go home and face Desdamona'S parents as they felt she was toO young to marry she was 18. So Oesdamona spent th months riage We The Brown Chapel chapel Brown t three ct born Ju 21 , 186E Edwi Eighth : born : EI Decem b Parley, : Maud f\t ruary 1i Part Si lver Sl at the ~ Pl ace te ICan Ho 4800 Sc |
