Brigham Heber Bingham

Brief Life History of Brigham Heber

When Brigham Heber Bingham was born on 15 December 1841, in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Erastus Bingham, was 43 and his mother, Lucinda Gates, was 44. He married Angelina Theresa Aldous on 24 December 1861, in Graham, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wilson, Weber, Utah, United States for about 40 years and Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1930. He died on 10 February 1935, in Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Brigham Heber Bingham
1841–1935
Angelina Theresa Aldous
1844–1929
Marriage: 24 December 1861
Brigham Heber Bingham Jr
1862–1940
Edwin Aldous Bingham
1864–1945
Angelina Maria Bingham
1866–1867
Robert Bingham
1867–1946
Elijah Norman Bingham
1870–1946
Edna Bingham
1872–1957
Joseph Bingham
1874–1942
Georgina Ann Bingham
1877–1948
Mary Ann Bingham
1879–1924
Lucinda Bingham
1881–1891
Erastus Bingham
1884–1959

Sources (192)

  • H Brigham Bingham, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Chihuahua, Mexico, Civil Registration Births, 1861-1947
  • Brigham H Bingham en el registro de Robert Bingham y Emma Tracy, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1842

Santa Anna retires to his hacienda and leaves government to Nicolás Bravo.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1866

French troops depart.

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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Brigham Heber Bingham Sr. Life Story

That the life of Brigham H. Bingham, ninth child and the sixth son of Erastus Bingham and Lucinda Gates was full of adventure and hardship can be attested by anyone familiar with the history of our pi …

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