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{{Infobox Biography
| subject_name =Frasier Franklin Bingham
| image_name =FFBingham.jpg
| image_size =225px
| image_caption =
| date_of_birth =[[1872]]
| place_of_birth =Yankee Springs, Michigan
| date_of_death =[[1953]]
| place_of_death =
| occupation =Lumber magnate, shipbuilder
| religion =[[McIlwain Presbyterian Church|Presbyterian]]
| spouse =[[Fannie Augusta Oerting]]
| parents =Amos Reed and Caroline Merry Bingham
| children =
| signature =
| signaturesize =Dorothy, Marjorie, Richard, Hilda, Charles, Harry, and Thomas
}}
'''Frasier Franklin Bingham''' was a lumber magnate and shipbuilder.
==Early life==
Bingham was born in [[1872]] to Amos and Caroline Bingham in Yankee Springs, Michigan. He was educated in the public school systems of Chicago and St. Louis, and in his youth worked odd jobs. Among his employers were a printing office, a wholesale grocery, a rubber factory, a wool warehouse, a hay press factory, a metal and mineral brokerage, and a railroad refrigerator car service. Bingham took night classes at a business college and became trained in stenography.
==In Pensacola==
In [[1890]], at the age of eighteen, Bingham moved to Pensacola from Kansas City, Missouri. He obtained a job as a clerk and stenographer for the [[Southern States Lumber Company]]; by [[1913]] he was assistant general manager of the company.
During World War I, Bingham opened a shipyard that built wooden schooners. The shipyard turned out over $200,000 worth of vessels, including several sold to the French government.
===Political activities===
Bingham, a Republican, served for several years as the chair of the [[Escambia County Republican Executive Committee]]. He ran three times for public office: in [[1907]] he ran for the [[Pensacola Board of Public Works]]; in [[1908]] he ran for state legislature; and in [[1929]] he ran for the Pensacola [[Board of City Commissioners]]. However, Pensacola was a fiercly Democratic city and the Republican Bingham lost each of the races.
==Personal life==
Bingham married [[Fannie Augusta Oerting]] (daughter of [[Charles McKenzie Oerting]]) on [[June 10]], [[1896]], in Pensacola; the couple had seven children.
==References==
{{refbegin}}
*[http://www.stjohnshistoriccemetery.com/pensacolas_heritages/business.htm St. John's Cemetery Foundation]
*Armstrong, Henry Clay. ''History of Escambia County''. St. Augustine: 1930. [http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/DLData/WF/WF00000021/file28.pdf p. 350-353]
{{reflist}}
{{refend}}
[[Category:Presbyterians|Bingham, Frasier Franklin]]
| subject_name =Frasier Franklin Bingham
| image_name =FFBingham.jpg
| image_size =225px
| image_caption =
| date_of_birth =[[1872]]
| place_of_birth =Yankee Springs, Michigan
| date_of_death =[[1953]]
| place_of_death =
| occupation =Lumber magnate, shipbuilder
| religion =[[McIlwain Presbyterian Church|Presbyterian]]
| spouse =[[Fannie Augusta Oerting]]
| parents =Amos Reed and Caroline Merry Bingham
| children =
| signature =
| signaturesize =Dorothy, Marjorie, Richard, Hilda, Charles, Harry, and Thomas
}}
'''Frasier Franklin Bingham''' was a lumber magnate and shipbuilder.
==Early life==
Bingham was born in [[1872]] to Amos and Caroline Bingham in Yankee Springs, Michigan. He was educated in the public school systems of Chicago and St. Louis, and in his youth worked odd jobs. Among his employers were a printing office, a wholesale grocery, a rubber factory, a wool warehouse, a hay press factory, a metal and mineral brokerage, and a railroad refrigerator car service. Bingham took night classes at a business college and became trained in stenography.
==In Pensacola==
In [[1890]], at the age of eighteen, Bingham moved to Pensacola from Kansas City, Missouri. He obtained a job as a clerk and stenographer for the [[Southern States Lumber Company]]; by [[1913]] he was assistant general manager of the company.
During World War I, Bingham opened a shipyard that built wooden schooners. The shipyard turned out over $200,000 worth of vessels, including several sold to the French government.
===Political activities===
Bingham, a Republican, served for several years as the chair of the [[Escambia County Republican Executive Committee]]. He ran three times for public office: in [[1907]] he ran for the [[Pensacola Board of Public Works]]; in [[1908]] he ran for state legislature; and in [[1929]] he ran for the Pensacola [[Board of City Commissioners]]. However, Pensacola was a fiercly Democratic city and the Republican Bingham lost each of the races.
==Personal life==
Bingham married [[Fannie Augusta Oerting]] (daughter of [[Charles McKenzie Oerting]]) on [[June 10]], [[1896]], in Pensacola; the couple had seven children.
==References==
{{refbegin}}
*[http://www.stjohnshistoriccemetery.com/pensacolas_heritages/business.htm St. John's Cemetery Foundation]
*Armstrong, Henry Clay. ''History of Escambia County''. St. Augustine: 1930. [http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/DLData/WF/WF00000021/file28.pdf p. 350-353]
{{reflist}}
{{refend}}
[[Category:Presbyterians|Bingham, Frasier Franklin]]
