John Wesley Bingham

JOHN W. BINGHAM senior member of the firm of Bingham & Holtsclaw, dealers in general merchandise, was born in the township and county where he now resides in the year 1857, and is a son of Edmund and Eliza (Olinger) Bingham, who were natives of the Old Dominion, from whence they removed to Indiana at an early date.

John W. passed his early years on the farm of his parents, but when about the age of eighteen years began teaching school which he continued upward of six years. Since then he has been engaged in farming and merchandising, in the latter vocation transacting a lucrative business.

His nuptials with Miss Hestor A. Holtsclaw were celebrated in 1877, and to their union three children have been born--Flossie E. (deceased), Howard C. and Flossie E.

Mr. Bingham is one of the progressive and prominent young men of our county, and where most intimately known, is best liked.>

Center TWP.

Source: History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, state of Indiana: from the earliest time to the present, together with interesting biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc. Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1884 824 pgs. page 437.