Norma Bingham

Female9 June 1913–11 July 1993

Brief Life History of Norma

When Norma Bingham was born on 9 June 1913, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Willard Shurtliff Bingham, was 29 and her mother, Cora Jane Farr, was 28. She married Cleo Don Bishop on 2 August 1937, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 11 July 1993, in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Cleo Don Bishop
1910–2001
Norma Bingham
1913–1993
Marriage: 2 August 1937
Alan Don Bishop
1946–2001

Sources (30)

  • Norma Bingham, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Norma Bingham in household of Willard Shurtliff Bingham, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Norma Bingham, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    2 August 1937Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

    Age 3

    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.

    1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch

    Age 3

    The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.

    1935 · The FBI is Established

    Age 22

    The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

    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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