Ancestor Images

On this and other pages yet to be created, I plan to collect a few photographs and paintings of as many near ancestors as I can gather. They are grouped by family. For the moment this page is very much a work in progress.

The links beneath some of the images lead to the respective individuals in the Bingham Genealogy Database (I have not provided genealogy links to all individuals shown since they can usually be easily reached through the links to their spouses or parents).

 

Bingham ancestors

 

Tiffany / Mitchell ancestors

 

Knox / Doughty ancestors

 

Forbes / Emerson ancestors

 

Jones / Chambers ancestors

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Bingham Ancestors


Hiram Bingham I (1789-1869)

frontispiece of his book "A Residence of Twenty One Years in the Sandwich Islands", publ. 1848


Hiram Bingham I (1789-1869)
and Sybil Moseley (1792-1848)
my great great grandparents

from a 1819 painting by
Samuel F. B. Morse (the inventor of the telegraph)


Hiram Bingham II (1831-1908)
and Minerva Clara Brewster (1834-1903) in Boston 1866

from "The Tiffany Fortune" by Alfred M. Bingham


Hiram Bingham II (1831-1908)
and Minerva Clara Brewster (1834-1903),
my great grandparents

image from Wikipedia


Left to right and back to front: Hiram Bingham II, his grandson Hiram IV, his son Hiram III, Lydia Bingham Coan (his sister), Hiram III's wife Alfreda and three of Hiram III's other sons, Alfred, Charles and Woodbridge.

photo taken in 1908 from "Explorer of Machu Picchu" by Alfred M. Bingham


Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956),
my grandfather

From a crayon portrait done in 1900 or 1901
by Raymond Crosby.

 


both of my Bingham grandparents, Hiram Bingham III and Alfreda Mitchell,
photograhed while he was a graduate student at Harvard (during 1901-1905)

© 1913, National Geographic Society
Hiram Bingham III photographed in front of his tent at Machu Picchu in 1912. This has always been my favorite photo of him

© National Geographic Society


Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956), my grandfather

photographed in 1916

photo © by Seldon Rodman
Alfred Mitchell Bingham (1905-1998),
my father, as a young man in 1936

photo by Seldon Rodman

photo © by Carolyn Bingham
Alfred Mitchell Bingham (1905-1998) in about 1995

photo by Carolyn Bingham

Tiffany / Mitchell Ancestors


Chloe Draper (1781-1852) and Comfort Tiffany (1777-1843),
my great great great grandparents


Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902),
my great great grandfather,
with Alfreda Mitchell (1874-1967), my grandmother in 1877

from "The Tiffany Fortune" by Alfred M. Bingham


Annie Olivia Tiffany (1844-1937) and her brother Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
photographed in the 1850's

from The Last Tiffany by Michael Burlingham


Annie Olivia Tiffany (1844-1937),
my great grandmother

© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) in 1911

detail of a painting by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
(Metropolition Museum of Art)


Annie Olivia Tiffany (1844-1937)

painting by Kathleen Abbot in 1903


Annie Olivia Tiffany at the Tiffany Mansion in Irvington, New York, overlooking the Hudson River.

painting by Louis Tiffany


Annie Olivia Tiffany (1844-1937),
my great grandmother;

her painting by Robert Tolman in 1921 hangs in the
Salem Free Public Library,
Salem, Connecticut


Annie Olivia Tiffany (1844-1937) photographed in 1921; she is clearly sitting on the same couch as in the painting at the left which may have been done at the same time as the photo.


Alfred Mitchell (1832-1911), my great grandfather, husband of Annie Olivia Tiffany

from "The Tiffany Fortune" by Alfred M. Bingham

photo © by Devanand Janki

Alfred Mitchell (1832-1911), this painting hangs at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut


My Mitchell great grandparents Alfred Mitchell, seated left, and Annie Olivia Tiffany, seated right; my grandparents Hiram Bingham III and Alfreda Mitchell standing behind; their children (left to right) Charles, Woodbridge, Hiram, Alfred (my father) and Brewster.

photo taken at the Folly mansion in Jamaica on Alfred Mitchell's 77th birthday, 1 April 1909.
[image courtesy of Christopher Bryant]


Alfreda Mitchell (1874-1967), my grandmother


Hon. Stephen Mix Mitchell (1743-1835)
,
my great great great grandfather.
Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1783-1788

image from Wikipedia

Knox / Doughty Ancestors


Andrew Knox (1806-1891),
my great grandfather, in front of his shoe store
in New York


Samuel Stilwell Doughty (1811-1888),
my great great grandfather (R) along with
Samuel Stilwell (1763-1848), his great uncle by marriage (L)

 


My great grandparents (L to R)
Martha Washington Tiers (1852-1941) and Samuel Doughty (1852-1931) along with their daughter, my great aunt Olga Doughty (1887- ) on a trip to Egypt


Sylvia Doughty Knox (1906-1981), my mother; photographed in Venice, ca. 1970


Forbes / Emerson Ancestors


John Murray Forbes (1813-1898), my son's 3rd great grandfather (twice).

photo from Wikipedia


Robert Bennett Forbes (1804-1889),
brother of John Murray Forbes


Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883-1882), my son's 3rd great grandfather.


Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883-1882)


William Cameron Forbes (1870-1959),
my son's great grand uncle

painted by Edward Emerson Simmons (1852-1931)

Jones / Chambers Ancestors


Edward Coffin Jones
between 1844 & 1949


Edward Coffin Jones (1805-1880),
3rd great grandfather of my son
photographed in October 1872


Emeline Chambers (1823-1852),
wife of Edward Coffin Jones

Hugh Chambers (1783-1823), father of Emeline Chambers, 4th great grandfather of my son

this 1806 painting by James Peck hangs at Deerfield Academy


Daughters of Edward and Emeline Jones:
Emma (1847-1920), Amelia (1849-1935) and Sarah Jones (1852-1891)

the Jones and Chambers images above are from "Memories of Edward C. Jones" by Amelia H. Jones

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