[1] Bingham graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1879, receiving a commission as second lieutenant.

He was transferred to Buffalo, New York on an engineering assignment where he suffered an accident which caused the loss of a leg, forcing his retirement from active service in the army in 1904 at the rank of brigadier general.

[5] In the controversy that followed,[6] he issued a statement denying any malice or prejudice, instead blaming incorrect statistics that “were not compiled by myself, but were furnished me by others”.

is a very disorderly person, with a bad reputation, and that some of his associates are degenerates.”[8] In 1908 he was elected as a hereditary member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati.

Before her death in 1920 on board the army transport Northern Pacific, they were the parents of:[9] In 1926, he was married to Addison Mitchell of New York in London.