Bingham, William Harrison
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 19, credited to Cornwall, VT Unit(s): 14th VT INF Service: enl 8/29/62, m/i 10/21/62, CPL, Co. D, 14th VT INF, m/o 7/30/63 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 01/09/1843, Cornwall, VT Death: 11/08/1916 Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Cornwall, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Alan Lathrop Findagrave Memorial #: 46517805 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 12/23/1879; widow Anna J. S., 12/1/1916, VT Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
JUDGE BINGHAM DEAD.
Judge William Harrison Bingham, who was stricken with paralysis last Friday morning, and who had been unconscious ever since, died at his home in West Cornwall Wednesday morning at the age of 74 years.
Mr. Bingham was a prominent farmer of Addison county and was president of the Addison County Telephone company and treasurer of the town of Cornwall. He had held many other offices in that town and was a former assistant judge of the Addison County court. He was a Civil War veteran having served in company D, 14th Vermont, and was a member of William P. Russell post, G.A.R., of this village, of which he was a former commander.
He is survived by a wife and one daughter, Mrs. William J. Ballou of Ludlow, and two sons, Prof. Eugene C. Bingham of Easton, Pa., and Lucius W. Bingham of Cornwall and two step-sons, Rev. L. Earnest Sunderland of Cleveland, O., and Edwin S. Sunderland of New York city.
Mt. Calvary Commandery, No. 1, K.T., will conduct services at the funeral in Cornwall this afternoon, and Union lodge No. 2, F. and A.M., will send a delegation, William P. Russell post, No. 89, G.A.R., will attend in a body, with Circle No. 5, Ladies of the Grand Army. Burial will be in the family lot in Evergreen cemetery in West Cornwall.
Source:
Middlebury Register, November 10, 1916
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.