Short Name: |
Hiram Bingham |
Full Name: |
Bingham, Hiram, 1789-1869 |
Birth Year: |
1789 |
Death Year: |
1869 |
Pseudonym: Binamu.
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Hiram Bingham, born in Bennington, Vermont. Bingham graduated from Middlebyr College in 1816 and form Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He was a pioneer missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. He transcribed the Hawaiian language to writing, taught the native people to read, and began translating the New Testament into Hawaiian.
Dianne Shapiro, from Archives at Yale (https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4813) (accessed 12/28/2022)
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I (October 30, 1789 – November 11, 1869), was leader of the first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands. Like most of the missionaries, he was from New England.
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