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BINGH A M
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-oParley Calvin Bingham was born in Lamar,
Missouri, June 28, 1896, on a farm, son of Harry F.
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Bingham, who was born in Ottawa, Kansas, August' 31,
1864, and died February 28, 1929.
His mother was
Nellie B. Cline Bingham, who was born August 24 ,
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and died July 2, 1918.
He has one sister,
Claudia, who resides in Port Huron, Michigan.
He attended school near his rural home in
Barton county, Missour t and was graduated from the
high school in Lamar in 1915, after which he spent
nine months in a business college in Springfield,
In 1916 he went to Burley, Idaho, where
Missouri.
he spent one year in the office of a clothing comHe then found employment in the office of
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the Ford Motor Company until he enlisted in the
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August 15, 1918, and went to Ann Arbor,
Michigan, for training, and was discharged December
11, 1918 ..
Mr .. Btngham entere d the University of Michigan
February 1, 1919, where he took the literary course
and received the degree of Bachelor of arts in 1921.
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In the fall of 1921, he went to the Boston
University School of Theology and in 1924 was given
the degree of Ba chelor of Sacred Theology by that
school.
Vfuile attending this school he served a
church as pastor at Penacook, New Hampshire, for one
year, and a church at South Walpold, Massachusetts,
for one year.
Both these churches had been served
by Bishop Birney during his student days.
Mr. Bingham was received into the New Hampshire
Annual Conference in 1921; transferred to the New
England Jmnual Conference in 1922, and was transferred to the Detroit Annual Conference in 1924, and
appointed Associate Minister with Dr. Weldon Crossland
to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Pontiac.
In 1926, he was appointed Associate Minister with
Dr. A.
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Stalker of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Ann Arbor and served as Director of the Wesley
Foundation.
While thus engaged he earned the degree !
of Master of Arts from the University of Michigan.
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In 1928, he was appointed as Executive Pastor of the
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Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Pontiac and
served for three years.
In 1931, he was sent as
pastor to the Washingt on Avenue Methodist Episcopal
• Church in Por t Hur on , and in 1934 , he became the
pas to r of the Firs t Methodist Chur c h in S aginaw.
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September 20, 1925.
He was married September 1, 1922, in Bay City,
Michigan, to Ruth Diebel, daughter of Valentine and
Lucile Erion Diebel, of German descent.
She was
graduated from the Bay City high school in 1915 and
was given the degre e of Bache lor of Arts by the
University of Michigan in 1920.
Mr. Bingham has served on the Board of Educ at ion
of the Methodist Church; on the Board of Ministerial·
Training of the Detroit Annual Conference and the
Board of Ministeri a l Qu a lifications, the Finance
Commission and as a trustee of the Wes ley Foundation
a t Ann Arbor.
When in college he participated in athletic
sports on the foot ba ll field and on the track.
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high school he engaged in volley ball and tennis.
I He has been a member of the Kiwani s club for about
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He h as spent eight summers i n the Divinity
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of the University of Chic ago.
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Written in 1940
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