Hiram Bingham II
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Hiram Bingham II | |
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Andover Seminary | |
| Occupation | Missionary |
| Spouse | Clara Brewster |
| Children | Hiram III, and one other |
| Parent(s) | Hiram I and Sybil Bingham |
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Hiram Bingham II (August 16, 1831 – October 25, 1908) was a
.Life and career
Born in
Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale University
in 1853.
Bingham was
Congregationalist minister in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 9, 1856. Nine days later on November 18, Bingham married Clara Brewster (1834-1903) in Northampton, Massachusetts. The newlyweds arrived in Honolulu on April 24, 1857, where they both ministered to the native Hawaiians as part of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They eventually traveled and spread Christianity in several Pacific Ocean island communities, notably at the end of 1857 at the Gilbert Islands
.
After a brief return to the United States in 1865, they arrived in Honolulu on March 13, 1867, for a stopover en route to the
.From 1877 to 1880, Bingham served as Secretary of the Hawaiian Board and in 1895, Yale University awarded him the
Baltimore, Maryland
.
Bingham's son,
Jonathan Brewster Bingham, was a long-time Reform Democratic Congressman from The Bronx
from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s.
References
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- Fathers and sons, the Bingham family and the American mission, by Char Miller, Published by ISBN 978-0-87722-248-4
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