Charles S. Bingamon
Charles S. Bingamon, a farmer living on rural mail route No. 5 out of Xenia and the proprietor of the old Charleston Mills farm on Massies creek on the line between Xenia and Cedarville townships, which he has owned since the spring of 1902, has been a resident of this county all his life. He was born on a farm in Spring Valley township on September 21, 1856, son of John and Ernaline (Beck) Bingamon, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, and who spent all their lives here. John Bingamon owned a farm in Spring Valley township, the place on which his parents had settled upon coming here from Maryland in pioneer days, but late in life sold that place and bought a farm of one hundred and thirty acres in Sugarcreek township on which he spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1903, he then being eighty-two years of age. His wife had preceded him to the grave but one year, her death having occurred in 1902, she then being seventy-two years of age. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church and her children were reared in that faith. There were five of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being Melinda, wife of Aaron Mills, of Xenia township; Greer, now a resident of Dayton; Sarah, deceased, and Bertie, wife of William Harbison, of Xenia township.
Reared on the home farm in Spring Valley township, Charles S. Bingamon received his schooling in the district schools, and in later years was the mainstay of his aged parents until their death. He remained with them, moving from the old farm in Spring Valley township to the later place in Sugarcreek township. and also rented and farmed other places, for eleven years being a tenant of the George Kendall place. In March, 1902, Mr. Bingamon bought the old Charlton Mills farm, on which the mill erected by Peter Moudy on Massies creek in 1837 is still standing. and after his marriage in 1908 established his home there. Since taking possession of that place Mr. Bingamon has made numerous improvements on the same, working the barn over into a bank-barn. He has a good brick house on the farm. In the summer of 1917 he had one of the finest fields of corn in Greene county, the stalks standing seventeen feet and six inches in height and bearing fine, large, sound ears. Mr. Bingamon is a Republican.
On March 25, 1908, Mr. Bingamon was united in marriage to Mrs. Eva (Snyder) Coy, a widow whose two sons by her previous marriage, Ross and Charles Coy, are now employed in the Delco factory at Dayton, and to this union three children have been born, Mark, born in 1909; Donald, 1913. and Mary E., 1915.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918