- WILLIAM BINGER (deceased), one of the noble army of pioneer
settlers of Green county, was
- a native of Ohio, born Dec. 25, 1815, a son of John and Sarah
BINGER, of German and English lineage, respectively, and who
were among the early settlers of the State of Ohio.
- Our subject received his education in his native State, and
was reared to farming pursuits. In 1846
- he came with his wife and four children to Wisconsin and
purchased forty acres of wild land in Cadiz township, on which
he that same year, built a log house for himself and family,
where they resided some twenty-six years. It is still standing
on the old farm, and occupied by a tenant. Mr. BINGER built a
new house, which is still occupied by his widow. He was a life-long
industrious and successful farmer, and died on the old homestead
in Cadiz township in 1895, leaving a fine property of 120 acres
of well-improved land.
- On Sept. 30, 1837, nine years before coming to Wisconsin,
William BINGER married Miss
- Susan DIVAN of Coshocton county, Ohio, and to this union
were born ten children - the eldest four in Ohio - viz.: Jerry,
Sarah, Mary, Solomon, Lucinda, Alpheus, Hiram, Miranda, Elmyra
and Melissa. Of these Jerry resides in Wisconsin; Sarah is the
deceased wife of Aaron ALLEN; Mary is the widow of Joseph DALE,
of Cadiz township, Green county; Solomon is mentioned more fully
later on; Lucinda died in childhood; Alpheus is also deceased;
Hiram resides in Browntown, Wis.; Miranda is the wife of John
TAYLOR, a farmer of Cadiz township, Green county; Elmyra is the
wife of Albert PATTISON, of Geneva Lake, Wis.; and Melissa is
deceased. Solomon, the second son, was born in Ohio in 1845.
During the war of the Rebellion he enlisted, Dec. 25, 1863, in
Company K, 16th Wis. V.I., and served until the close of the
war, having participated in over thirty battles, among them being
the engagements at Nashville and Atlanta, and was with Sherman
on his memorable march to the sea. He now has his home in Geneva
Lake, Wisconsin.
- Mrs. Susan BINGER, widow of our subject, was born July 6,
1818, in Coshocton county, Ohio,
- a daughter of Henry and Mary (SHRAKE) DIVAN, natives of Pennsylvania,
and of German extraction. They had a family of ten children,
eight of whom grew to maturity, viz.; Emanuel (deceased), who
was a prominent farmer of Cadiz township, Green county; Alpheus,
who died in Ohio; Susan, widow of William BINGER; Samuel, who
died in Andersonville prison during the war of the Rebellion;
Margaret, widow of Simon P. LYNCH, late of Cadiz township, Green
county (she is now living in Monroe, Wis.); Ruth, wife of George
BAKER, of Licking county, Ohio; Walter, residing in Seward county,
Neb.; and Lucinda, wife of Thomas RYAN, of Coshocton county,
Ohio.
- In politics the late Mr. BINEGER was originally a Whig, afterward
a Republican. In matters of
- religion he was not a member of any church, though a sincere
believer in Christianity in its broadest and purest sense. An
excellent, loyal citizen, he always took an active interest in
the welfare of the community, and when he died he left behind
an honored name and an enviable record of good deeds. His widow,
a grand old lady of eighty-three years, still makes her home
on the farm of 120 acres, in the arduous labor of clearing and
improving which she so well aided her husband, and now passes
the declining years of her honored life in well-earned, peaceful
rest.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 820-821.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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