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BINGHAM, Edwin H.,

Vice-President of Jewell Belting Company, Hartford.

Deacon Thomas Bingham, progenitor of the Bingham family of Connecticut, was baptized in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, June I, 1642, and came to this country when about eighteen years old with his widowed mother, Anne Bingham, locating in Saybrook, Connecticut, about
1658. He also lived for a time at New London, but eventually settled with his mother and her second husband, Mr. Backus, at Norwich, Connecticut. He was one of the original proprietors of that town in 1660. His grant of four acres for a home lot extended from the meeting house to Bean Hill and from the road to the river. He married, December 12, 1666, Mary Rudd, believed to have been a daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Rudd, of Saybrook,and his wife, the celebrated "Bride of Bride Brook (see "Caulkins' History of New Haven," p.48). In 1693 he removed to Windham, Connecticut, where be became prominent in civil and church affairs; selectman, deacon of the church and sergeant of the military company. His original homestead was near the Windham Center burial ground, which was originally a part of it. He died
January 16, 1729-30, aged eighty-eight years.
(II) Thomas (2) Bingham, son of Deacon Thomas (i) Bingham, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, December 11, 1667, and died April 1, 1710, the eldest of eleven children. He succeeded his father as proprietor of the town. He married, February 17, 1691-92, Hannah Backus, daughter
of Lieutenant William Backus.
(III) Nathaniel Bingham, son of Thomas (2) Bingham, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, June 30, 1704, and died in 1756. He married, about 1724, Margaret Elderkin, who was born in November, 1700, a daughter of John and Abigail Elderkin. He sold his house and fifty acres of land, September 22, 1752, and removed to Mansfield, Connecticut, where he bought two hundred and fifty acres in three tracts.
(IV) John Bingham, son of Nathaniel Bingham, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, April 1, 1727, died December 20, 1804. He married, December 13, 1750, Susanna Burnham, who was born in Norwich, June 20, 1731, and died April 15, 1795, daughter of Benjamin and Mary
Burnham. John Bingham owned a farm of two hundred and three acres in Lisbon.
(V) Captain John (2) Bingham, son of John (i) Bingham, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, February 2, 1756. He was a soldier in the Revolution, responding with his company to the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775. His father deeded to him the homestead in Lisbon, Connecticut, January 2, 1794. He died March 6, 1835. He married, December 10, 1778, Talitha Waldo, who was born in Windham, August 5, 1760, and died April 5, 1852, a daughter of Zaccheus and Talitha Waldo.
(VI) Ezra Bingham, son of Captain John (2) Bingham, was born in Lisbon, Connecticut, October 13, 1797. In early life he went to Ohio, but soon returned to the old homestead, which his father conveyed to him, February 13, 1832. He married, in Mansfield, September 29, 1830, Eliza Adams, who was born in Mansfield, April 23, 1805, daughter of Dr. Jabez and Lucy Adams, and the seventh generation from John and Elinor (Newton) Adams. She died December 12, 1879, at Orange New Jersey. Ezra Bingham sold the homestead, April I, 1864, and moved to Hanover village, where he spent his last years and died May 25, 1879. Lydia Fitch, maternal grandmother of Eliza (Adams) Bingham, was a great-grand-daughter of Major William Bradford, mentioned elsewhere in this work, a son of Governor William Bradford, who came in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth. Through her mother Eliza Adams was descended also from Richard Warren, who came in the "Mayflower." Her mother, Lucy (Swift) Adams, was a granddaughter of Rowland Swift, whose mother, Abigail (Gibbs) Swift, was a daughter of Thomas and Alice (Warren) Gibbs, and Alice was a daughter of Nathaniel Warren, son of Richard Warren.
(VII) Henry Adams Bingham, son of Ezra Bingham, was born at Lisbon, Connecticut, July 13, 1833, and lived with his father on the homestead until he enlisted in the Civil War, August 11, 1862. He was a private in Company C, Eighteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. In June, 1863, during the engagement at Winchester, Virginia, he was taken prisoner. The rebels were on their way to Gettysburg and he was detailed as a nurse. While in the hospital he was taken with varioloid and sent to the pest house, thereby escaping imprisonment at
Andersonville. In the course of time he was exchanged and returned to his regiment, serving in the campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. He was commissioned lieutenant of the Thirtieth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Colored Troops, March 14, 1864, and as lieutenant of the Thirty-first United States Colored Troops, January 27, 1865, and afterward located with his command in Kentucky and at Petersburg, Virginia. At the close of the war his regiment was sent to the Mexican border, where he served from May, 1865, until he was mustered out, November 7, 1865. He returned to Lisbon, in March, 1866, leased the homestead of Andrew Burnham, and died August 30, 1866, of tetanus. He married, November 7, 1860, Nancy L. Standish, born May 12, 1842, a daughter of Thomas Fitch Standish, granddaughter of Amos Standish, and a descendant through his father, Amasa, Israel, Samuel, Captain Josiah, from Captain Miles Standish, who came in the "Mayflower" and whose fame has been celebrated in Longfellow's poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish." The wife of Amos Standish,
Clarissa (Fitch) Standish, was a descendant of Elder William Brewster, also of the "Mayflower." Samuel Fitch, born at Saybrook, April, 1665, son of the famous minister, Rev. James Fitch, married the daughter of Elder Brewster.
(VIII) Edwin Henry Bingham, son of Henry Adams Bingham, was born at Lisbon, in Hanover parish, Connecticut, on the old Bingham homestead, May 30, 1862. After the death of his father, when be was but four years old, he went with his mother to live with his grandparents
in Hanover, town of Sprague, and attended the public schools there until 1876, when he came with his mother to Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from the Hartford High School in the class of 1880. His business career began soon afterward. He entered the employ of the
Jewell Belting Company of Hartford, March 14, 1881, as office boy, and he has continued with that concern to the present time. From time to time he was promoted to positions of more responsibility, and for a number of years has been in charge of the tannery. Since 1911 he has been vice-president of the company. He is a member of Lafayette Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Hartford; of the Republican Club of that city; of the Hartford Golf Club, and the Congregational Club of Hartford. In politics he is a Republican; in religion a Congregationalist, a member and deacon of the South Congregational Church. He married, October 26, 1899, Mary Elizabeth Goodwin, daughter of Charles S. Goodwin, of Hartford. Her father, Charles S. Goodwin, was born January 8, 1819, on the old Goodwin homestead, Pearl street, Hartford, the site of which is now occupied by the building of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company.
After completing his public school training, he became a clerk in his father's shoe store, then conducted by his brother, John H. Goodwin, with whom he was afterward in partnership under the firm name of John H. Goodwin & Company. In 1866 his brother retired, leaving him the sole proprietor, and he conducted it until 1884, when he admitted his son to partnership under the firm name of Charles S. Goodwin & Son. He died March 23, 1898. For many years Mr. Goodwin was a deacon of the South Congregational Church.
Of him a contemporary wrote: "He was a man of gentle spirit and kind nature, of sterling integrity, a lover of quiet ways, but ready at the call of duty, and faithful in every position which he accepted. His religious convictions were deeply rooted and his life was regulated in accordance
with them. He was respected and beloved by all who knew him." He was a director of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Goodwin married, October 12, 1852, Mary Elizabeth Lincoln, born August 17, 1827, daughter of Levi and Malinda (Miles) Lincoln.
Children: I. Anna Malinda Goodwin, born July 25, 1853. 2. Mary Elizabeth Goodwin, born May 18, 1855, married Edwin Henry Bingham, mentioned above. 3. Charles Lincoln Goodwin, born September 29, 1858. 4. George Russell Goodwin, born December 18, 1863. John
Goodwin, father of Charles B. Goodwin, was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, April 7, 1772, died March 14, 1828. He married, December 16, 1807, Anna Belden, who died April 11, 1849, his widow, a daughter of Nathan Belden. (See sketch of James Lester Goodwin for the Good-
win ancestry.)
In addition to the ancestry described in the foregoing account, Edwin Henry Bingham is descended from the following founders of Norwich: Rev. James Fitch, Robert Allyn, William Backus, Sr., William Backus, Jr., Thomas Bingham, John Gager, Thomas Lefflngwell, Josiah Reed, Nehemiah Smith, Richard Bushnell, John Downs, Thomas Gates, Robert Roath, Josiah Rockwell, Josiah Standish, Richard Adams and Benjamin Burnham.
Through the Fitch line he is also descended from Rev. Henry Whitfield, who was the father of the wife of Rev. James Fitch.













 

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