Brief Life History of Floy Ivy
When Floy Ivy Bingham was born on 11 March 1897, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, her father, John Samuel Bingham, was 37 and her mother, Margaret Abigail Mathias, was 26. She married Newel James Cutler on 24 September 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1950 and World for about 10 years. She died on 9 March 1966, in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Washington Heights Memorial Park, South Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- May B. Cutler, "United States 1950 Census"
- Floy Ivy Bingham, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Floy Bingham, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1914 · Hotel Brigham Built
Constructed in two phases, 1914 and 1924, Hotel Brigham was originally built to house transient railroad workers.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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