Brief Life History of Calvin Perry
When Calvin Perry Bingham was born on 28 January 1852, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Calvin Bingham, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn, was 19. He married Olive Esphenia Phelps on 10 October 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Naples, Uintah, Utah, United States in 1900 and Roosevelt, Uintah, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 4 June 1922, in Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, United States.
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- Calvin P Bingham, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Calvin Perry Bingham, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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