Walter Edward Bingham

Brief Life History of Walter Edward

When Walter Edward Bingham was born on 4 July 1887, in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Walter Bingham, was 20 and his mother, Jessie McDonald, was 22. He married Lillian Rose Jespersen on 6 September 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 18 October 1975, in Roy, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter Edward Bingham
1887–1975
Lillian Rose Jespersen
1897–1991
Marriage: 6 September 1916
Walter Dale Bingham
1918–2003
Keith Jespersen Bingham
1919–2003
Betty Bingham
1921–2015
Jessie Ruth Bingham
1923–2005
Jack Edward Bingham
1925–1993
Donna Mae Bingham
1928–2006
Dolores Bingham
1929–2023
Harland West Bingham
1933–2011

Sources (67)

  • W Edward Bingham, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Walter Edward Bingham, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Walter E Bingham, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1889

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.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1910 · The BSA is Made

Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

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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Story Highlight

The Watermelon Patch...

Grandpa Bingham out in his watermelon patch holding a big - huge - sweet "black" melon, as he called them. The proud look on his face says it all. Grandpa raised two varieties of watermelons from see …

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