Brief Life History of William David
When William David Bingham was born on 8 June 1870, in Perry, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Levi Perry Bingham, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Anne Elizabeth Lusk, was 36. He lived in Oxford, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880. He died on 6 September 1899, at the age of 29, and was buried in Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- William D Bingham in household of Perry Bingham, "United States Census, 1880"
- Wm David Bingham, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- William David Bingham, "BillionGraves Index"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1877 · Brigham Young's Last Public Sermon
In 1877, Brigham Young gave his last public sermon in Brigham City.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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