Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Bingham was born on 26 November 1885, in Trenton, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Bingham, was 34 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Jensen, was 21. He married Sarah Adelia LaPray on 26 September 1906, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Logan Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 13 March 1965, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Washington Heights Memorial Park, South Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Benjamin F Bingham, "United States 1950 Census"
- Benjamin F Bingham, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Benjamin Franklin Bingham, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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