When Eugene Bingham was born on 9 December 1881, in Wilson, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Eugene Bingham, was 25 and his mother, Hannah Sarah McFarland, was 18. He married Esther Amalia Erickson on 4 September 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 11 June 1972, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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 .
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