Brief Life History of Benjamin L.
When Benjamin L. Bingham was born in April 1849, in Smithfield Township, Johnston, North Carolina, United States, his father, Charles J Bingham, was 54 and his mother, Cassandra Langdon, was 26. He married Melissa V Williams on 28 January 1874, in Wake, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and District 406, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States in 1900. He died on 23 November 1925, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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- Benjamin Bingham, "United States Census, 1850"
- B L Bingham, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Benjamin L. Bingham, "Georgia, Deaths, 1914-1927"
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World Events (8)
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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