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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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William Bingham, later head of the Bingham School, is born at Hillsborough
William Bingham, son of the schoolmaster William J. Bingham, is born in Hillsborough. He taught in the family school from 1856 until his death in 1873 and was its head for his last eight or nine years.
People: William Bingham (1835-1873)
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William Bingham begins teaching in his father's school
Fresh from the university, William Bingham joins the Bingham School as a teacher in 1856 and stays until his death in 1873, the last years as its head.
People: William Bingham (1835-1873) · William James Bingham
Subject: Bingham School
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William Bingham graduates from the university with first honors
William Bingham graduates from the University of North Carolina in 1856 as one of five students awarded first honor in a class of forty-seven. The Bingham School's 1905 catalogue later called him first in a class of seventy.
People: William Bingham (1835-1873)
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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William Bingham, head of the Bingham School, dies in Florida at thirty-seven
William Bingham, head of the Bingham School at Mebaneville and author of a Latin grammar, an English grammar and a Latin reader, died in Florida in February 1873 at thirty-seven. A Fayetteville paper of February 25 put his death on Thursday the 20th; the school's 1905 catalogue gives February 18. His brother Robert and his widow then carried on the school together.
People: William Bingham (1835-1873)
Subject: Bingham School
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A Presbyterian high school takes over the old Bingham School grounds near Mebane
After Robert Bingham moved the Bingham School to Asheville in 1891, Orange Presbytery leased the old grounds at Mebane in October 1892, elected trustees and a principal, and named the Rev. E. C. Murray principal of a Presbyterian High School that was to open January 1, 1893. The 1905 catalogue of the later Bingham School says William Bingham's widow paid most of its costs. Church control ended in 1897.
Subject: Bingham School
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Herbert Bingham becomes principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane
Herbert Bingham, son of William Bingham and a recent graduate of the university, is chosen in March 1896 to succeed the principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane, who had resigned. The school stood on the grounds where his father had run the Bingham School, and Herbert had joined its faculty the year before.
Subject: Bingham School
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Herbert Bingham dies months after taking charge of the school
Herbert Bingham, principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane, dies of typhoid fever at his home there after ten weeks' illness, seven months after taking charge. His sister later gave a scholarship at the school in his memory.
Subject: Bingham School
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Preston Lewis Gray takes charge of the Mebane school and renames it the William Bingham School
In 1897 the church gave up the Presbyterian High School at Mebane, and Preston Lewis Gray, a Virginia lawyer married to William Bingham's daughter, became its principal. By July he was calling it the William Bingham School, a name Robert Bingham of the Bingham School at Asheville sought an injunction against in 1898. Gray was still running it on the old grounds in 1905.
Subject: Bingham School
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Bingham School near Mebane reports its enrollment, courses and charges
The school's catalogue lists 96 students from twenty-five counties for the session that ended May 17, 1905. At least ten were girls, and four of them completed courses that spring. For the coming year the catalogue set board, room and tuition at four quarterly payments of $59 and offered the school diploma in any of three courses: classical, scientific or commercial.
Subject: Bingham School
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