Hiram Bingham

1831 - 1908  (77 years)

• Name	Hiram Bingham  [1]
  Birth	16 Aug 1831	Honolulu, Hawaii, -USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Note	Line 19775 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: DEAT PLAC Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
  Note	Line 19776 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: EDUC Yale College
  Note	Line 19777 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: OCCU Missionary and Lexicographer
  Note	The only son of Hiram Bingham I was born in Honolulu on August 16, 1831, and was named after his father. In 1840, at the age of nine, he left the islands and went with his family to live in New Haven. He later attended Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale College in 1853.
  Note	After graduation he taught school in Northampton, Massachusetts and became principle of the Northampton High School, where his future wife Minerva Clarissa Brewster was a teacher.
  Note	In 1856 he received the M.A. from Yale and was ordained a minister at New Haven on November 9, 1856. Nine days later he married Minerva Brewster, and two weeks later they sailed from Boston as missionaries to Micronesia on the Brig 'Morning Star.' They arrived on the Atoll of Apaiang in the Gilbert Islands on November 18, 1857, where they established a Christian mission, in spite of difficulties. The climate is almost unendurable for white men, food was scarce, and the foreign traders who came to the islands were bitterly opposed to missionaries. They stayed in the islands for 7 years until ill health made it necessary to return to Honolulu and eventually to Boston.
  Note	In 1866 Hiram Bingham II was put in charge as captain of a missionary brig, a second 'Morning Star.' In 1867and 1868 they sailed to the Marquesas Islands, the Gilberts, and sixteen different islands in Micronesia, before returning to Honolulu.
  Note	Five years later, in 1873, Hiram Bingham and his wife went again to preach the gospel in the Gilberts and to stay on Apaiang. Part of his work there was a compilation of a Gilbertese-English dictionary. Illness in 1875 forced the Binghams to leave Apaiang for the last time in 1875. He continued scholarly work in Honolulu until his death in 1908
  Death	25 Oct 1908	Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, -USA   [1]
  Person ID	I18286	HHTT
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

  Family	Minerva Clarissa Brewster,   b. 1834, of Northampton, Massachusetts, -USA d. 17 Nov 1903, Honolulu, Hawaii, -USA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	18 Nov 1856  [1]
  Children	> 1. Hiram Bingham,   b. 19 Nov 1875, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, -USA d. 6 Jun 1956, Washington, District of Columbia, -USA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F4636	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

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  [S118] Lorinda Stover Steadman 'Lori' (Reliability: 1).