Brigham H. Ellsworth, residing at Lewisville, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 23, 1850, a son of Edmund and Elizabeth (Young) Ellsworth, mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was reared and educated in his native city, remaining with his parents to the age of nineteen years, when he was married. He then learned the machinist's trade and later took up railroad work, becoming an engineer, being the only practical machinist working as engineer on the Utah Northern, He continued in railroad work for five years and in 1882 came with his brothers and others to Jefferson county, Idaho. Here he filed on land adjoining the town of Lewisville and with characteristic energy began to transform the raw tract into cultivated fields. He continued the operation of his farm for fifteen years and then sold the property, establishing his home in Lewisville, where he opened a blacksmith shop, which he has since conducted, remaining an active factor in the industrial circle of the city.

In December, 1869, Mr. Ellsworth was married to Helen A. Gibson, a daughter of Henry and Eliza (Gibbs) Gibson, who were natives of New York. The father was born at Oswego, that state, and in 1848 became a resident of Salt Lake, casting in his lot with the earliest pioneers of the state. His wife was born on the plains while her parents were en route to Utah, In 1849 Mr. Gibson left Salt Lake for California, where he remained for eighteen months and then removed to Millcreek canyon, Utah, while later he lived in Willard and subsequently in the Cache valley, where he resided for a number of years. He afterward became a lumber merchant of Ogden, where he continued in business for several years, and then went to Clearfield, where he purchased land and carried on farming for a considerable period. His last days were spent in Ogden, where he died October 19, 1912, at the age of eighty-six. The mother had passed away in 1876, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth became the parents of eleven children: Charles; Marian Lee; Claude; Lovell; Curtis A,; Vere; Alice, who became the wife of Rastus Walker and died in April, 1908, at the age of thirty-seven years; John W., who died in 1876, when but four weeks old; Joseph Owen, who died in 1877, at the age of four months; Sarah Eliza, who was born in June, 1890, and died in the following October; and Brigham, who was the second in order of birth and died in 1880 at the age of seven years and eleven months.

Mr. Ellsworth belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has done home missionary work. He was ordained a member of the Seventy and remained active in that branch of the church work for a number of years. Politically he is a democrat and has served as justice of the peace.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley, 1920; article courtesy Amanda Fox)