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Biography

David Brinton (1814) was born 29 December 1814, to John and Priscilla Branson Brinton in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. As a young boy, David lived in The William Brinton 1704 House, near West Chester, Pennsylvania. After his father died in 1818, he was raised by his Uncle Benjamin Cope, who was Quaker. At age 16, David was "bound out" as an apprentice blacksmith to Joshua Hodges, who taught him the trade. David remained with Mr. Hodges until age 20 or 22. He married Sarah Piersol in 1836, in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

David and Sarah joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1840. After Sarah and three of her four children died, he married Elizabeth Hoopes, who bore one child. Because of religious persecution, they joined the Mormon exodus organized by Brigham Young, from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters, which is near Omaha, Nebraska. Elizabeth and son died in Winter Quarters. David then married Harriet W. Dilworth, whose family had been West Chester neighbors. After a two-year stopover in Savannah, Missouri, during which two sons were born, the new family continued westward.

They arrived in the Utah Territory on 17 September 1850. David established his home and blacksmith shop in Holladay, an area ten miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Harriet gave birth to seven more children. While in the Salt Lake region, David also married Hilda M. Bradesen, a plural wife with whom he had four children.

David served as a Mormon missionary in both England and the eastern United States and as Bishop of his congregation for 21 years. In addition to blacksmithing, he started the Big Cottonwood Co-op, a general store at Brinton's Corner. David died on 17 May 1878, and is buried in the (Brinton) Holladay Cemetery.

Genealogy

David Brinton (1814) is the great-great-great-great(4G)-grandson of William Brinton "The Colonist", as shown in the lineage chart below:

Sources

• Marshall K. Brinton, great-grandson of David Brinton (1814).
• The Brinton Genealogy, 1924.