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Bingham, Hiram
1831 - Born on the 16th of August in Honolulu.
Enrolled at Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
1853 - He was graduated from Yale University.
1856 - Ordained a Congregationalist minister in New Haven, Connecticut on 9th of November.
- Bingham married Clara Brewster in Northhampton, Massachusetts.
1857-1864 - Missionary to Gilbert Islands. (Now Kiribati)
1865 - Returned to the United States.
1873-1875 - Missionary to Gilbert Islands.
1877-1880 - Served as Secretary of the Hawaiian Board.
1895 - Yale University awarded him the Doctorate of Divinity.
1908 - He died on 25th of October in Baltimore, Maryland.
Bingham was the first to translate the Bible into Gilbertese.
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