Dr Edwin Bingham

Biographical Summary:

Edwin Bingham, born in Concord, 5 May 1832; died in Ogden, 25 February 1903; buried in Ogden.

Married Phoebe Jane Burk in Salt Lake, 28 December 1854. Edwin built a house and did some farming in Lynn (Bingham's Fort) after his marriage, but removed to Ogden in 1857, where he bought some city lots, worked at various occupations, and became drum major in the brass band.

He removed to Parowan, Iron County, Utah, in or before 1859, but stayed there only two years before moving again, to Minersville, Beaver County, Utah, where he homesteaded some land. While his family tended the farm, Edwin continued to work in various occupations: a failed livestock operation, freighting, manufacture of shoes and buggy whips. He also taught dancing, for which he furnished the music.

Phoebe Jane operated a small store in her house and made clothes and gloves for her neighbors. About 1868 or 1869, Edwin went to Egan Canyon in White Pine County, where he bought a ranch and built a toll gate. He subsequently removed to Horse Shoe bend, where he bought yet another ranch and supplied water, milk, butter, and eggs to residents of the North Star Mining Camp. He removed to Milford for a time, and there operated a boarding house for workers at the Ten Stamp Quartz Mill.

Returning to the ranch at Horseshoe Bend, he opened a Stage Station, on the route between Beaver and the Frisco Mining Camp. His eldest sons hauled ore from the Cave Mine to Frisco during this time, but when the Quartz Mill closed, they returned to Milford where they operated a successful hotel known as Bingham House. In time Edwin returned to Ogden, where he engaged in farming. During this time he invented a washing machine (of which he sold a few) and a tire tightener. He next worked as a traveling salesman in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, and finally engaged in the development and sale of patent medicines, known as Bingham's compounds. While engaged in this endeavor, he sold his ranch at Horseshoe Bend and bought a house in Ogden.

He and Phoebe Jane had eight children:

1. Edwin Florentine, born 26 September 1855; married Jane Stoddard;
2. Bertrand Artello, born 25 February 1857; married Derinda Stephens;
3. Phebe K., born 2 March 1859; married Albert C. Wilson;
4. Ida E., born 13 September 1861; married Woodley Taylor;
5. May Lucinda, born 10 April 1865, married James Edward Shipp;
6. Inez T., born 23 August 1871, married Thomas Bingham, Paul Schuh, and Michael Giblin;
7. Henry D., born 17 January 1867, married Bertha Hubbs and Agnes Friday;
8. Cora E., born 8 December 1874; married Harry Topping.

SOURCE: Unknown.

Obituary:

PIONEER DEAD. Dr. Edwin Bingham Succumbs to Pneumonia.

Dr. Edwin Bingham, an old pioneer of Ogden died this morning at 8:50, at his
residence, 3343 Washington Avenue, of pneumonia. He was born at Concord,
Vermont, May 5, 1833, and came to Utah September 19, 1847, in the second company of hand-cart pioneers.

He leaves a large family, consisting of five daughters, three sons, twenty-nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. One of his daughters, Mrs. W. G. Taylor, is now in the Hawaiian Islands with her husband.

The funeral will be from the First Ward meeting house, Friday, at 2 p.m. The remains can be viewed at the residence from 10 to 1 o'clock, Friday.

SOURCE: Ogden Standard Examiner, February 25, 1903. Retrieved from: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14417168

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• Residence: Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States
• Residence: Weber county, Weber, Utah Territory, United States - 1850
• Obituary: PIONEER DEAD. Dr. Edwin Bingham Succumbs to Pneumonia.

Dr. Edwin Bingham, an old pioneer of Ogden died this morning at 8:50, at his residence, 3343 Washington Avenue, of pneumonia. He was born at Concord, Vermont, May 5, 1833, and came to Utah September 19, 1847, in the second company of hand-cart pioneers.

He leaves a large family, consisting of five daughters, three sons, twenty-nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. One of his daughters, Mrs. W. G. Taylor, is now in the Hawaiian Islands with her husband.

The funeral will be from the First Ward meeting house, Friday, at 2 p.m. The remains can be viewed at the residence from 10 to 1 o'clock, Friday.

-Ogden Standard Examiner, February 25, 1903, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

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