
Hiram Bingham I (1789-1869)
image from Portraits of American Protestant Missionaries to Hawaii,
publ. by Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Honolulu, printed by the Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1901 (found on Wikipedia)
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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 an 1819 painting by
Samuel F. B. Morse (the inventor of the telegraph) |
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Hiram Bingham II (1831-1908)
and Minerva Clara Brewster (1834-1903) in Boston 1866
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Hiram Bingham II (1831-1908)
and Minerva Clara Brewster (1834-1903),
my great grandparents
image from Wikipedia
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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.
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Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956),
my grandfather
From a crayon portrait
done in 1900 or 1901
by Raymond Crosby.
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both of my Bingham grandparents, Hiram Bingham III and Alfreda Mitchell,
photograhed while he was a graduate student at Harvard (during 1901-1905) |
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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
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Lieutenant-Colonel Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), right in 1918 at
the Third Aviation Instruction Centre, Issoudun, France
(also pictured left to right: Major T. J. Lanphier, Major-General J. G. Harbord, Colonel Walter G. Kilner)
from "An Explorer in the Air Service" (1920) by Hiram Bingham
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Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut was an influential evangelist for aviation. Here during the summer of 1931 he poses on the wing of an autogiro after returning to the Capitol from a round of golf. Bingham claimed the autogiro was almost as safe as a church pew.
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Alfred Mitchell Bingham (1905-1998),
my father, as a young man in 1936
photo by Seldon Rodman |

Alfred Mitchell Bingham (1905-1998) in about 1994
photo by Carolyn Bingham |

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
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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
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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
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Annie Olivia Tiffany at the Tiffany Mansion in Irvington, New York, overlooking the Hudson River.
painting by Louis Tiffany
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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.
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Alfred Mitchell (1832-1911), my great grandfather, husband of Annie Olivia Tiffany
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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
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Hon. Stephen Mix Mitchell (1743-1835),
my great great great grandfather.
Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1783-1788
image from Wikipedia |

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)
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Samuel Doughty family at Darling Hill, Stonington, Connecticut
on their 50th wedding anniversary 3 October 1921
- Back Row (L to R): John Lounsberry (no relation), Sylvia Doughty Knox (1906-1981), Hasle (wife of Orme Staudinger, Isabel (wife of Harold Gould), Orme Staudinger
- Second Row: Bill Cockins Jr.(1911-1982), David D. Knox (1909-1989), Edna Stilwell Doughty (1872-1960), Charles Staudinger, Annie Austin Tiers (1859- ), Olga Doughty (1887-1964), Robert Gould Cockins (1912-1977), Samuel Doughty "Tony" Cockins
- Third Row: Cyril Staudinger (1895-1976), Martha Washingtion Tiers (1852-1941), Samuel Doughty (1852-1931), John A. Knox (1904-1972)
- Fourth Row: Theodore Jackson, Herbert Howard Knox (1865-1944), Harold Gould (1872-1948), Martha Cockins (1918- ), William Cockins (1911-1982)
- Front Row: Samuel Doughty Knox (1911-1997)
[possiblity that Orme and Cyril Staudinger are switched in above labeling] |

My grandmother, Edna Stilwell Doughty (1872-1960) as a young woman
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Edna Stilwell Doughty (1872-1960) on her wedding day 24 January 1900
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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- 1964) on a trip to Egypt
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Sylvia Doughty Knox (1906-1981), my mother; photographed in Venice, ca. 1970
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My mother's family, the Herbert Knox family, probably photographed in New Canaan, Connecticut in about 1919. From left to right: John Andrew Knox (1904-1972), my grandmother Edna Stilwell Doughty (1872-1960), Samuel Doughty Knox (1911-1997), my grandfather Herbert Howard Knox (1865-1944), my mother Sylvia Doughty Knox (1906-1981) and David Douglas Knox (1909-1989).
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My grandmother "Granny Knox" (Edna Stilwell Doughty, 1872-1960) in her garden
at Darling Hill, Stonington, Connecticut
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