William S. Binning and Catherine Lynch

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Husband William S. Binning ¹

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           Born: 6 Oct 1840 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: James J. Binning (      -1860) 2
         Mother: Ann Eliza Staunton (1819-1895) 3

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       Marriage: 21 May 1882 - Gunnison, Gunnison Co, CO 2

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Wife Catherine Lynch ²

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           Born:  - Brady's Bend, Armstrong Co, PA
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Children

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1 M William S. Binning, Jr. ²

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2 F Bertha Binning ²

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3 M Joseph C. Binning ²

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General Notes: Husband - William S. Binning

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His mental training was obtained in the Third Ward school of the Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which he attended until he was seventeen years of age. He then accepted a clerkship in a hat store and later went into the grocery business. But machinery and the mechanical arts proved more attractive to him than a prospective business life, so he turned to the railroads to satisfy his natural bent, and preferring the trade of a machinist, he secured a place in the railroad shops. In October, 1861, he went to Pittsburgh, and became one of the most trusted employees of the government works at Fort Pitt, and had the honor of finishing the first twenty-inch gun ever turned out by the government under the direction of the superintendent. The second gun was turned out under the management of Mr. Binning, who had the entire responsibility for its successful completion. Prior to the turning of the guns, he also helped to make the huge machinery on which the guns were finished, and assisted in placing the guns in position. For three years, from 1877 to 1880, Mr. Binning was a member of the fire department of New Castle, Pennsylvania, and in May, 1880, departed for the west, finding work at his trade in the State of Colorado. During the fifteen years he lived in the Centennial State, he was foreman in the shops of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R. at Pueblo, Salida, Leadville, and Grand Junction, having entire charge of the shops at the latter place throughout the last seven years of his sojourn in the west.

He was a member of Macy Lodge, No. 55, F. & A. M., of Grand Junction, Colorado.

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 299.

2 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 300.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 301.