Brief Life History of Ezra
When Ezra Bingham was born on 7 July 1864, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Bingham, was 34 and his mother, Genet Gates, was 28. He married Annie Emily Shurtliff on 18 March 1885, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 24 February 1900, in West Haven, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Ezra Bingham in household of William Bingham, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ezra Bingham - birth-name: Ezra Bingham
- Ezra Bingham, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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