Bingham family.

Hiram Bingham was born on October 30, 1789 in Bennington, Vermont. He graduated from Middlebury College (1816) and Andover Theological Seminary (1819). He served as a missionary in Hawaii, publishing and translating several works. He returned to the United States in 1840, and continued to lecture and write until his death in New Haven, Connecticut on November 11, 1869.

Hiram Bingham was born on August 16, 1831 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from Yale (1853) and was ordained in 1856. He served as a missionary in the Gilbert Islands (1857-1863), returning to the United States in 1865. He traveled to Micronesia and Hawaii in 1866, remaining in Hawaii until 1873. He resumed missionary work in the Gilbert Islands (1873-1875) and later returned to Hawaii for health reasons. He died in Baltimore, Maryland on October 25, 1908.

Hiram Bingham was born on November 17, 1875 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1898) and the University of California at Berkeley (M.A., 1900). He also received degrees from Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.) in South American history. In 1906 Bingham retraced the 1819 march of Bolivar in South America, prior to the publication of a book on that topic. From 1907-1924 Bingham taught South American and Latin American history at Yale University. He was a delegate to the first Pan-American Scientific Congress (1908-1909). Bingham also organized and directed the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911, which located the ruins of Machu Picchu and other Incan sites.

He served as a lieutenant colonel during World War I, returned to Connecticut and, as a Republican, was elected lieutenant governor in 1922, governor in 1924, and, in a special election, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1924 and again in 1926. Defeated for re-election in 1932, Bingham served as president of the National Aeronautic Association (1928-1934) and, in 1951, on the Loyalty Review Board of the Civil Service Commission. Bingham died in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 1956.

From the guide to the Bingham family papers, 1811-1974, (Manuscripts and Archives)