When George Sanford Bingham was born on 23 June 1881, in Dry Fork, Uintah, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Bingham Jr, was 30 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Gfroerer, was 26. He married Janet Anderson Gerber on 2 September 1903, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Pleasant View, Utah, Utah, United States in 1930 and American Fork Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 9 June 1958, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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On Nov 7 1882, Denver was hit with a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. It was the largest earthquake to hit in the history of Colorado.
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Routt, Colorado, United States 1911: Moffat, Colorado, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1902: Utah, Utah, United States
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.
Possible Related NamesLiving in the Maeser-Vernal area of the State of Utah gave George Bingham and Janet Gerber a challenge once they became engaged to be married. This basin in northeast Utah was too far to travel in jus …
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