Brief Life History of Leonard John
When Leonard John Bingham was born on 15 December 1918, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Leonard Ole Bingham, was 31 and his mother, Huldah Christine Nordquist, was 29. He married Helen Williams on 30 December 1943. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 2007 and Europe in 2007. He registered for military service in 1945. He died on 7 July 2007, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Johon L D Bingham, "United States 1950 Census"
- Leonard John Bingham, "Utah, World War II Index to Army Veterans of Utah, 1939-1945"
- Leonard John Bingham, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1921 · Lehi Becomes First to Build In Honor of World War Veterans
A “Soldier’s, Sailor’s and Marine’s Memorial” was conceived by W. A. Knight in 1918 to honor Utah residents killed during World War I. A library was dedicated on December 30, 1921.The remainder of the building was dedicated May 31, 1926. The Spanish Mission Revival style building cost $55,000 to build. This became “the first municipal facility in America erected to the memory of World War I Veterans.”
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
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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