Brief Life History of Edwin
When Dr. Edwin Bingham was born on 5 May 1832, in Concord, Essex, Vermont, United States, his father, Erastus Bingham, was 34 and his mother, Lucinda Gates, was 34. He married Phoebe Jane Burk on 28 December 1854, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1850 and Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 25 February 1903, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Edwin Bingham, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edwin Bingham - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Edwin Bingham
- Edwin Bingham, "Find A Grave Index"
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1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed
The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
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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Edwin Bingham by Grace L.Thomas Spangenberg, gdau.
Edwin Bingham grew up on a farm between Carthage and LaHarp, Illinois. He was an apt student,very fond of music and played the fife, drum and violin. In Ogden he was a drum major in the Ogden Brass …
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