Harry Elsworth Brighton (Biography)

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From Illustriana Kansas, page 147

Harry Elsworth Brighton, editor and publisher of the Longton News-Reflector, was born in Tazewell County, Illinois, December 22, 1867, and for sixty-three years has resided in Kansas.

His father, Israel Mills Brighton, was born in Indiana in 1844, and died at Independence, Kansas, in February 1879.  He was a farmer of English ancestry.  The mother, Mary Ellen Logue, was born in Dayton, Ohio, August 3, 1843.

Educated in public school, Harry Elsworth Brighton learned the printer's trade on the South Kansas Tribune, and for eighteen years, from 1892 until 1909, published the Caney Chronicle.  A Repubican, he served as representative from Montgomery County in the session of 1909.   He has always been active politically.

On December 25, 1889, Mr. Brighton was married to Ida Lee Compton at Independence.  She was born in Woodson County, June 1, 1868.  There are four children living and one deceased:  Maude M., born May 17, 1893, who married Joseph Shoemaker; Harold Thomas, October 5, 1898, who died April 2, 1912; Hubert A., March 21, 1899; Elizabeth L., June 3, 1903; and Doris Evelyn, December 18, 1906

Mr. Brighton served as a member of the food administration bureau during the World War.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Longton Booster Club and the Masons.  He is serving his third term as mayor of his home town.

Residence:  Longton.