William Bingham (1835-1873)

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1. July 7, 1835 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)The Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 15
2. November 10-13, 1841 Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County Meeting at the court house, Hillsborough men organized a Washington Temperance Society on the total-abstinence pledge, adopted a constitution and elected Col. Henry Webb president. The drive followed talks in the village by John F. Carey of the Baltimore Washingtonians, and about half the adult men of Hillsborough signed the pledge. People: James C. Turrentine, William Bingham (1835-1873), George Laws, Lemuel Lynch, Walter A. Norwood, Stephen MooreSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 18, 1841, p. 3
3. 1856-1873 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 BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 15 · Also: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
4. 1856 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)The Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 15 · Also: Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 1, p. 671
5. July 1857 Robert Bingham becomes a partner in his father's school at the Oaks After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1857, Robert Bingham was admitted in July as junior partner in his father's school at the Oaks, which took the firm name W. J. Bingham and Sons. His brother William was also a partner. People: William Bingham (1835-1873), William James BinghamSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
6. late February 1862 Orange County's militia regiments draft a third of their men for state service Under the state's call for troops, Orange County's 45th and 46th militia regiments drafted one third of their enrolled men unless enough volunteered. The 46th met at Hillsborough for the draft, and the 45th's drafted companies chose officers at Durham's on March 4 and were organized there the next day, while examiners heard claims for exemption. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)Hillsborough Recorder, February 26, 1862, p. 3
7. by February 18, 1863 Farmers of the Oaks neighborhood pledge to sell food to soldiers' families at fixed prices A plan for Orange farmers to join an association selling necessities to soldiers' families and the poor at set moderate prices (corn at $1 a bushel, pork at $10 a hundred, bacon at 20 cents and beef at 6 cents a pound) came to little when bad weather stopped the January meeting of delegates at Hillsborough, but one neighborhood, the Oaks, sent in a list of a dozen men willing to join, among them William J. Bingham and Thomas D. Oldham, and the Recorder printed it so that families would know where to find supplies. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)Hillsborough Recorder, February 18, 1863, p. 2
8. April 18, 1863 A county meeting at Hillsborough condemns bread riots and buys corn and bacon for the needy Days after some women of the Cane Creek neighborhood west of town asked about seizing food from farmers who were asking fifty dollars a barrel for flour, a public meeting of Orange citizens at Hillsborough, chaired by magistrate of police A. C. Murdock with former governor William A. Graham explaining its object, heard reports of want from across the county, condemned violence and disorder by women or anyone else, and resolved that the legislature's appropriation and the county court's fund were enough to relieve soldiers' families and the needy if put to better use. It named a committee including William J. Bingham, Freeman Walker and J. W. Norwood, which within days had bought corn and bacon for distribution. People: A. C. Murdock, William A. Graham, Ellison Goodloe Mangum, William Bingham (1835-1873), John Wall NorwoodHillsborough Recorder, April 22, 1863, p. 2
9. by June 24, 1863 A Confederate grand jury refuses to indict the Rev. R. J. Graves of the Oaks The Rev. R. J. Graves, a pastor living at the Oaks, the seat of William J. Bingham's school, had been arrested by Confederate military authority on an anonymous charge that he was a disloyal Northerner, taken out of the state and jailed; the arrest was protested in the Confederate Senate and Bingham defended him in print. In June the grand jury of the Confederate court at Richmond, which heard only the government's witnesses, refused to find a true bill against him, and the case was dismissed. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)Hillsborough Recorder, July 29, 1863, p. 3 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, June 24, 1863, p. 2
10. 1864 William Bingham takes over the family school at the Oaks and incorporates it With his brother Robert in the army and his father in declining health, William Bingham was running the school at the Oaks by 1864. That year he incorporated it as the Bingham School, a military and classical academy, and in December moved it to Mebaneville. People: William James Bingham, Robert BinghamSearch the index · NC DNCR: Bingham School (G-39), highway marker essay
11. late 1864 or 1865 Bingham School moves from the Oaks to Mebaneville William Bingham and Robert Bingham, sons of William James Bingham, moved the school, late in 1864 or in 1865, to a site east of Mebane's Station on the North Carolina Railroad, after the legislature incorporated it in 1864 as a military and classical academy. The highway marker's 1865 may be when classes began at the new site. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873), William James BinghamNC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Bingham School (G-39)
12. about 1866 Bingham School circular sets its year, board and tuition The postwar circular describes a single forty-week session opening the first Wednesday of March in two terms, with board and tuition at $350 a year and $435 once uniform and book deposits are added. Boys lived in the superintendent's family, under a mile from the Mebaneville depot. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)The Bingham School, Orange County, North Carolina (circular, 1866), scan p. 2 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, June 23, 1866, p. 3