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William Bingaman was born September/04/1826 in Lancaster Co, PA. He was the son of John Henry and Elizabeth Sloat Bingaman. John Henry Bingaman was born July/11/1795 in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster Co, Pa, and died February/13/1880 in Etna, Oh. He married Elizabeth Sloat September/23/1820 in Reading, Pa, daughter of John Sloat and Sarah Stagg. After the revolutionary war the lands in Ohio opened up for farming. The family owned about 25 acres of land in Lancaster Pennsylvania to divide between John and his brothers. Paul, the father of John loaned him money and in January of 1837 John and his family moved to Ohio were land was cheaper.
His father Paul died in April 1837. Once in Ohio John picked a flat piece of land. In March of 1839, John then 21 bought land in Licking County, Ohio with the money he received from his father's estate and moved his family there after October 1840. In 1880 John died on this land and gave it to his only son William Bingaman.
William was married to Esther Jane Barb in 1852 in Fairfield County, Oh. She was the daughter of Bethuel Barb and Elisabeth Sturgeon. They had eight children; John Henry Bingaman, born February/12/1853 in Etna, Oh; died March/17/1864 in Etna Twp., Oh, Elizabeth S Bingaman, born August/31/1857 in Etna, Licking, Oh.; died February/22/1933 in Ft. Scott, AK.. She married Samuel Bethune Hyler October/10/1878 in Etna, Licking, Oh, Allen Bethuel Bingaman, born May/14/1861 in Etna Twp., Oh; died March/16/1864 in Etna Twp.,Oh., Alva Eldon Bingaman, born August/08/1866 in Etna, Oh; died November/06/1878 in Etna Twp., Oh, George William Bingaman, born September/06/1868 in Etna, Oh; died December/1947 in Princeton, Ks, Harry Emerson Bingaman, born September/08/1870 in Etna, Oh; died March/04/1953 in Silver City, NM. He married Rachel Heaton Huff December/27/1899 in Princeton, Franklin, Kansas, Robert Barb Bingaman, born April/27/1873 in Etna, Oh; died December/24/1942 in Ottawa, Ks. He married Minnie Josephine Drum June/12/1895 in Princeton, Franklin, Kansas and Ira Elbert Bingaman, born July/10/1875 in Etna Twp., Oh; died October/30/1878 in Etna Twp., Oh.
The family left Ohio and moved to Kansas after the death of four of their sons from diphtheria. Two sons were buried in the same Coffin in 1864 and the other two died a few days apart in 1878. Esther Jane Barb Bingaman believed the North winds off the lake in the winters was killing her children. She believed the climate of eastern Kansas would be better for the children's health. They moved to Princeton, Kansas in 1882. They lost no more children after the move to Kansas. There they farmed. The National Road went near the farm. It was a corduroy road made of logs, which made hard it was for the horses to pull the wagons up the hill. William walked with a limp either from his varicose veins or might have had polio. Because of this he could not help with the wheat harvest because of his varicose veins. He had the sores and the wheat chaff would get in the sores. William died June/05/1910 in Princeton, Ks. He had very broad shoulders and his body would not fit in a standard coffin. One had to be made special for him.