Hiram Bright

    Hiram Bright was born near Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1834, and is one of eleven children of Peter and Mary Bright, natives of Pennsylvania, the former a son of David Bright, in Bucks County August 5, 1771, whose father was Michael Bright, also born in Pennsylvania in 1732, who married one Catharine Huber, and died in 1814. David Bright married one Catharine Hettenstine, by whom he was blessed with ten children -Michael, Sarah, William, Abigail, Catharine, Aaron, John, Francis, David and Peter. The father of our subject was married in Bucks County, December 23, 1827, to Mary Evans, and removed in 1833 to Montour County, Pennsylvania, where he died, and where his widow is yet living. their family was as follows: Abner, David, Rebecca, Hiram, Dennis, Evans, Albert, Penina, Philip, Abby and Mary.

    Hiram Bright was married in Montour County, Pennsylvania, march 10, 1857, to Rhoda A., daughter of Robert and Sarah Butler, with an issue of five children -Mary E., Frank, Butler, Oakley and Carl. In the spring of 1858, Mr. Bright removed to this county (Warren) where he now owns 788 acres of land.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.