Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Bingham was born on 1 April 1820, in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, her father, Erastus Bingham Sr, was 22 and her mother, Lucinda Gates, was 22. She married Elijah Norman Freeman on 17 April 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1851 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 25 September 1893, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Freeman, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Bingham - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Bingham Freeman
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: Mary Bingham 1854 marriage to Lorin Farr
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1840
On 6 April 1840, Kirtland Township became part of the newly organized Lake County.
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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The Beginnings of Ogden, Utah
In the spring of 1851 the Binghams left Farr's Fort , took up about six claims on the Lemon Survey on the south side of a dirt lane that later became 2nd Street He was the first settler in this area. …
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