Brief Life History of Harris
When Harris Bingham was born on 18 April 1806, in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, United States, his father, Ira Bingham Sr, was 29 and his mother, Sophia Weeks, was 26. He married Lucia Ann Warner on 28 December 1828. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 12 May 1894, in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, United States.
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- Harris Bingham, "United States Census, 1850"
- Harris Bingham, "Find A Grave Index"
- Harris Bingham, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1822
Oldest Grave seen in the Memorials list.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .
American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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