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  Hiram Bingham II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham II (August 16, 1831-October 25, 1908), was one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
Born in Honolulu, Bingham was the sixth child of Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and Sybil Moseley Bingham (1792-1848).
Bingham was enrolled at Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University in 1853.
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 Bingham
Bingham (1905-1998) Written by his son Alfred M. Bingham, this biography conveys the ambitious, multifaceted personality of Hiram Bingham III, the explorer who rediscovered the lost Inca ruins of Machu Picchu.
The son and grandson of New England missionaries in the Pacific, Hiram Bingham was raised to carry on the family tradition within the church.
Bingham was born into a missionary family in Hawaii, married the heiress to the Tiffany fortune, and in 1911 set off to make a name for himself, hoping to find the lost city of the Incas.
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 The Morning Star
Bingham was the son of the Reverend Hiram Bingham who was one of the first missionaries who went to the Sandwich Islands thirty seven years before.
Bingham observed them to be strange looking men with the strangest thing about them being the pair of earings that they wore.
Bingham that this would be the field where the Hawaiian missionaries will probably labour and where most of them will for years to come.
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 Hiram Bingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiram Bingham is the name of several people.
Hiram Bingham, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Hiram Bingham II, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Bingham, Hiram Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956, American archaeologist, historian, and statesman, b.
Bingham, Hiram Bingham, Hiram, 1831-1908, American Congregationalist missionary, b.
Bingham, Hiram Bingham, Hiram, 1789-1869, American Congregationalist missionary, b.
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 missionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
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 Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham was born on November 19, 1875 in Honolulu, Hawaii and was descended from Deacon Thomas Bingham, who had come to the American colonies in 1650 and settled in Connecticut.
Bingham attained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1905 and then spent one year as a Preceptor at Princeton University.
Bingham was a member of the Royal Geographical Society and the National Geographical Society.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bingham_hiram.html   (562 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham - The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers
Hiram Bingham was known for his expeditions to South America.
A member of the Republican party of the United States, Bingham served as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1923 to 1924 and as Governor in 1925.
Bingham is the son of American missionary Hiram Bingham, who founded the first Protestant mission in Hawaii.
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 Bingham, Hiram on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Bingham adapted the Hawaiian language to writing, published Elementary Lessons in Hawaiian (1822), and, with his associates, translated the Bible into Hawaiian.
Hiram Bingham's lost property; This American adventurer first set eyes on the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu 90 years ago this week.
Harry Bingham: profile in courage: U.S. Foreign Service officer ignored his bosses at Foggy Bottom and saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis, at the cost of his career.
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 NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American archaeologist and politician Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956), who achieved worldwide fame for his expedition to a nearly inaccessible part of the Peruvian Andes, where he discovered Machu Picchu, the "lost city of the Incas."
From 1909 until 1924 Bingham was a member of the history faculty at Yale University, and in 1911 he led a Yale organized archaeological expedition with the express purpose of locating Machu Picchu, the mountain fortress the Incas had built four centuries earlier to hide from the Spanish conquistadors.
Bingham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, a third-generation descendent of a prominent missionary family serving in several Pacific Islands as ministers and Bible translators.
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 Yale University Library - Anthropology Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
By 1907, however, Professor Hiram Bingham, historian, explorer, politician and curator of Yale's Collection of Latin American History, 1908-1930, was able to state that the Yale Library had one of the best collections of Latin American material in the country.
Missionaries often lived among the peoples they served and were ideally suite d to observe and record anthropologically interesting data.
Missionaries were also frequently involved in developing grammars of native languages in order to translate the Bible.
www.library.yale.edu /socsci/anthro/index.html   (4184 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham, Jr. - Story of the Morning Star, 1866
Hawaiian missionaries might easily be found who could live on these coral rims; and we have seen that there were American missionaries who would be glad to labor there.
The missionaries were very glad to hear him express his confidence in them; and although scarcely any one had been converted (during their five years of hard labor, they did not think of giving up and going elsewhere.
The people feared that if the missionaries came, they would be obliged to give up all their wives but one, and that all the children would be obliged to attend schools, &c.
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 HIRAM BINGHAM IV, WWII HOLOCAUST HERO, BY ROBERT KIM BINGHAM, ESQ., SON OF HIRAM BINGHAM IV
Hiram Bingham IV, of Salem, Connecticut (who is the son of Hiram Bingham III, the explorer who discovered Machu Picchu in Peru in 1911) died in 1988 at age 84.
Bingham responded in his own humane and righteous way for the good of our nation perhaps at a time when his superiors were giving orders that went against that good land we should be,'' she said.
Hiram Bingham is now dead, but not long ago I was in touch with his son [Kim], who informed me that the State of Israel had recognized in a ceremony the help that Hiram Bingham had given to many Jewish intellectuals and artists trapped in France in 1940.
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 Bingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Henry Bingham, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, one of the most senior judges in Great Britain
Hiram Bingham III, US Senator from Connecticut and explorer born in Honolulu, Hawai'i
John Bingham, a Congressman from Ohio during the Reconstruction.
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 Hiram Bingham III Descendants
Hiram Bingham III was my grand father and although I never knew him well, he loomed large over my childhood.
As the son of a pennyless missionary family who married into the Tiffany fortune, had seven sons, discovered Machu Picchu and was a U.S. senator he was an important part of my upbringing.
From a crayon portrait of Hiram Bingham III done in 1900 or 1901 by Raymond Crosby, a Yale classmate.
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 Hiram Fong Dies; One of First Hawaiian Senators (washingtonpost.com)
Hiram L. Fong, 97, a Hawaii Republican who served in the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1977 and rose from poverty to become a venerable figure in Pacific politics, died of kidney failure Aug. 18 at his home in Honolulu.
The senator was born Ah Leong Fong in Honolulu, the seventh of 11 children.
As a young man, he changed his first name in honor of Hiram Bingham, a 19th-century missionary in Hawaii and a fellow Congregationalist.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A13805-2004Aug18.html   (882 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham
Hiram had a good education and had many jobs throughout his life.
He attended the Republican National Convention as Connecticut's alternate and was chosen as an elector on the Hughes-Fairbanks ticket.
Hiram Bingham married Alfreda Mitchell on November 20, 1900 and had 7 sons.
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 Hiram Bingham, Jr. - Story of the Morning Star, 1883
The missionaries and all on board got safely to land in a boat, though with great peril of their lives; they also saved some of their effects and the ship's chronometers and charts.
On the same trip, the missionaries settled on the Mortlock Islands three couples of their Ponape children, among whom was the beloved Princess Opatinia, with her husband Opataia.
Missionaries do not commonly bring to the front their trials and privations; nor would I, but for the needs of the cause in Micronesia.
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 Bingham, Hiram --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Born on Oct. 30, 1789, in Bennington, Vt., Hiram Bingham worked for the American Board of Boston in the Hawaiian Islands from 1820 to 1840.
U.S. frontier painter and politician George Caleb Bingham was noted for his landscapes, portraits, and especially for his representations of Midwestern river life.
Hiram Rhoades Revels was born on Sept. 27, 1822, in Fayetteville, N.C. He was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Church in 1845 and later recruited fl troops during the American Civil War.
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 Forum Message   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
A bass viol was brought over on the Thaddeus in 1820 with the pioneer missionary group by George Humehume Kaumuali'i.
In August of 1824 at the time of the Kauai revolt, the bass was given to Samuel Whitney to "keep for the church".
In 1829 Hiram Bingham describes a bass viol used at a service in honolulu.
www.hawaiimusicmuseum.org /forum/hist/tp168.html   (135 words)

  
 3.08: How Do You Say Computer in Hawaiian?
It is 1823 in Honolulu, and the Reverend Hiram Bingham is sitting down to his writing table.
Bingham is leader of a group of New England Calvinist missionaries who have come to the Polynesian chain with one express purpose: to stamp out paganism.
To this end, Bingham is bracing for a formidable task, one that will take him and his seven accomplices 16 years to achieve: translating the Bible into Hawaiian.
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 eLibrary Project : Gilbertese language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Gilbertese is written in the Latin alphabet, and has been since the 1840s, when Hiram Bingham Jr, a missionary, first translated the Bible into Gilbertese and required an alphabet in which to write it.
Bingham decided to use "hilly", which would be more easily understood.
Catholicism,Catholic missionaries would later arrive at the islands 1888 and translate the Bible independently of Bingham, resulting in differences (Bingham wrote Jesus as "Iesu", while the Catholics wrote "Ietu") that would only be resolved in the 20th century (No 's' in the Gilbertese alphabet).
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 I18942: Adolphus (2nd C.of Guines) (____ - ____)
The only son of Hiram Bingham I was born in Honolulu on August 16, 1831, and was named after his father.
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.
Five years later, in 1873, Hiram Bingham and his wife went again to preach the gospel in the Gilberts and to stay on Apaiang.
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 Hiram Bingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hiram Bingham III U.S. Senator from Connecticut and explorer known for uncovering Macchu Pichu born in Honolulu
Hiram Bingham IV Vice Consul in Marseilles France during World War II who rescued Jews from the Holocaust
Portrait of an Explorer: Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Machu Picchu
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 Bingham - TheBestLinks.com - Connecticut, England, France, Holocaust, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Bingham - TheBestLinks.com - Connecticut, England, France, Holocaust,...
Bingham, Connecticut, England, France, Holocaust, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jew, New...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 American Bible Society Archives: American Bible Society Annual Report, 1909   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Though the latter part of his life was spent in his home in Honolulu, he was closely in touch with the movements of the missionary vessels sailing througout these islands, one of which appropriately bore his name.
Through Dr. Bingham the Society was kept informed of the needs of the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands group, and received orders of Scriptures for distribution therein.
Certain changes in the missionary relationships in these island groups occur from year to year, but the work of circulating the Scriptures goes actively forward.
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 Hiram Bingham, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army & United States Senator
Hiram Bingham was born on November 19, 1875 in Honolulu, Hawaii and was descended from Deacon Thomas Bingham, who had come to the American colonies in the year 1650 and settled in Connecticut.
Bingham attained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1905 and then spent one year as a Preceptor at
Bingham was a member of the Royal Geographical Society and the National
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 Hiram Bingham I - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hiram Bingham I - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Hiram Bingham I contains research on
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 yLinks: Religion/Missionaries
The dates may be a bit misleading, as they often reflect the lifespan of the missionary.
Story of the Morning Star: Sequel of 1883 - by Hiram Bingham, Jr The vessel was built at East Boston, and sailed on November 13, 1866, under command of Rev. Hiram Bingham, the Micronesian missionary who wrote the preceding story of the first Morning Star.
It was on March 28, 1867, that the Star began her missionary work in the Pacific, still sailing under command of Captain Bingham.
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