TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical
Note
Scope and
Contents of the Papers
Arrangement
of the Papers
Restrictions
Index
Terms
Related
Material
Administrative
Information
Detailed
Description of the Collection
Papers of Hiram Bingham I ~ 1816-1869
Papers of Sybil (Moseley) Bingham [Mrs. Hiram Bingham] ~ 1840-1848
Papers of Hiram Bingham II ~ 1841-1908
Papers of Clarissa (Brewster) Bingham [Mrs. Hiram
Bingham II] ~ 1855-1903
Papers of Lydia (Bingham) Coan ~ 1840-1911
"Private Journal," 1840-1844, of Elizabeth Bingham
[sister of Hiram II] ~ 1840-1844
Papers re the Binghams' work in the Gilbertese
language ~
Miscellaneous correspondence and documents [i.e.,
letters not written by nor to members of the Bingham family] ~
Duplicates, Miscellany, and Photographs ~
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A Finding Aid For The Bingham
Family Papers, 1816-1908
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| Repository: |
Mission Houses Museum, Collections of the Hawaiian
Mission Children's Society |
| Creator: |
Bingham Family |
| Title: |
Bingham Family Papers |
| Dates: |
1816-1908 |
| Extent: |
ca. 15 ft |
| Abstract: |
The Bingham Family Papers Collection is composed of
both personal and professional correspondence, miscellaneous papers,
sketches, photographs, and accounts of nineteenth and twentieth century
missionary life in the Pacific Islands beginning with Hiram Bingham I
(1789-1869) to Hiram Bingham II (1831 to 1908). This collection
contains materials about the Sandwich Isles Mission, 1819-1863, mission
to the Gilbert Islands, 1852-1900, as well as Bingham family material. |
| Collection ID: |
MS-004 |
| Location: |
Mission Houses Museum Library, Vault |
Hiram
Bingham I
Date
~ Event
1789
~ Hiram Bingham is born in Bennington, Vermont on Oct. 30.
1816 ~ Graduated from
Middlebury College
1819 ~ Graduated from
Andover Theological Seminary
1820 ~ Accepted for the
first American mission to Hawaii under the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions
1820 ~ Married Sybil
Moseley (1792-1848)
1820 ~ Hiram Bingham and
his wife arrived in Hawaii aboard the brig Thaddeus
1822-39 ~ Created an
alphabet and translated the Bible into the Hawaiian language
1840 ~ Returned to the
United States where he lectured and wrote until his death
1852 ~ Remarried to Naomi
Morse (1802-1873) on Aug. 24
1869 ~ Died in New Haven,
Connecticut on Nov. 11
Note:
Hiram Bingham I was responsible for designing Kawaiaha'o Church, which
was constructed between 1836 and
1842 and still stands in Honolulu, Hawaii today.
Hiram
Bingham II
Date
~ Event
1831
~ Hiram Bingham II was born on Aug. 16 and the sixth child born to
Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and Sybil Moseley Bingham (1792-1848).
1840 ~ Hiram Bingham II
was sent to the United States to attend school with sisters Elizabeth
(1829-1899) and Lydia (1834-1915). Hiram Bingham II was enrolled at
Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
1853 ~ Graduated from
Yale University
1856 ~ Ordained a
Congregationalist minister in New Haven, Connecticut on Nov. 9
1856 ~ Married Clarissa
Brewster in Northampton, Massachusetts on Nov. 18
1857 ~ Arrived in
Honolulu to serve as missionaries to Hawaii and would later spread
Christianity to several islands throughout the Pacific
1865 ~ Returned to the
United States
1867 ~ Returned to
Honolulu on Mar. 13 while en route to the Marquesas Islands
1868 ~ Returned to
Honolulu to settle
1877-80 ~ Hiram Bingham
II served as Secretary of the Hawaiian Board
1895 ~ Hiram Bingham II
was awarded the Doctorate of Divinity by Yale University
1908 ~ Died in Baltimore,
Maryland on Oct. 25
Note:
Hiram Bingham II was the first to translate the Bible into
the Gilbertese language.
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The Bingham Family Papers is
composed of both personal and professional correspondence,
miscellaneous papers, sketches, photographs, and accounts of nineteenth
and early twentieth century missionary life in the Pacific islands
beginning with Hiram Bingham I (1789-1869) to Hiram Bingham II (1831 to
1908). This collection contains materials about the Sandwich Isles
Mission, 1819-1863, mission to the Gilbert Islands, 1852-1900, as well
as Bingham family material.
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Papers of Hiram Bingham I Papers of Sybul (Moseley) Bingham [Mrs. Hiram
Bingham I] Papers of Hiram Bingham II Papers of Clarissa (Brewster) Bingham [Mrs. Hiram
Bingham II] Papers of Lydia (Bingham) Coan "Private Journal," 1840-1844, of Elizabeth Bingham
[sister of Hiram II] Papers re the Bingham's work in the Gilbertese
language Miscellaneous Correspondence [i.e., letters
written neither by nor to members of the Bingham Family] and documents Duplicates, Miscellany, and Photographs The papers are arranged into 9
series
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Restrictions on Access:
The Bingham Family Papers are open
for research. All requests for permission to republish or quote from
the manuscript collections must be submitted in writing to the Mission
Houses Museum.
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Researchers desiring materials
about related persons, subjects or document types should search the
Mission Houses Museum Library catalog using the index terms shown
below.
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Personal Names
Bingham, Hiram. 1789-1869
Bingham, Hiram. 1831-1908
Subjects
Missionaries --Hawaii
--Correspodence.
Missionaries --United States
--Correspondence.
Missions --Hawaii.
Document Types
correspondence
daguerreotypes (photographs)
travel sketches
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Item, folder title, box number,
Bingham Family Papers, Collections of the Hawaiian Children's Society,
Mission Houses Museum.
A certificate of gift signed by
Woodbridge Bingham on June 5, 1979 states that the Bingham Family
Papers was given to HMCS in 1965.
The Bingham Family Papers
collection was processed by MHM Librarian, Sophie J. Cluff.
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The following section contains a
detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
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