Allen Cyrus Bingaman ^{1 2 3 4}

   FamilySearch ID: 9663-RHD.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: laborer on 14 Dec 1895 in Leinbachs, Berks, PA. ⁵

2. Census in 1900 in Reading, Berks, PA. ¹ The 1900 census recorded at 218 Pear Street: Allen C. Bingiman, 24, day laborer, born Mar 1876, living with wife Clara E., 23, Dec 1877. They had been married 4 years and birth 1 child who was living with them: Percie P., 3, Jun 1897. Also in the home was Clarence B. Glase, rivet maker, 27, born Mar 1873, living with wife Sarah A., 24, Mar 1876. They were married less than a year. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Newspaper: Reading Times: Cruelly Treated For Ten Years, Says This Wife, 20 Oct 1915, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁶ -----
Cruelly Treated For Ten Years, Says This Wife
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Mrs. Clara E. Bingaman, of West Windsort stret, through Counsel M. Bernard Hoffman, has started divorce proceedings against Allen Bingaman, of Franklin street, and Judge Wagner granted a subpoena.
The couple were married December 29, 1896. Mrs. Bingaman alleges that for 10 whole years before she left her husband, on March 30, 1910, he treated her cruelly. She declares that on the day they separated he beat her so severly that she could scarcely turn around. She took their child and went to her parents.

4. Newspaper: Reading Times: Divorce Case, 18 Feb 1916, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁷ DIVORCE CASE. In the divorce proceedings of Clara E. Bingaman, of West Windsor street, against Allen Bingaman, of Franklin street, the master, Oliver Lentz, has filed a report with the court in which he recommends a divorce on the ground of cruel treatment. The couple were married Dec. 29, 1896 and separated March 30, 1910.

5. Newspaper: Reading Times: Divorce Cases. Eleven Separations Granted By Court: Clara S. Bingaman of West Windsor street, from Allen Bingaman of Franklin street; cruel treatment, 8 Mar 1916, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁸

6. Occupation: Engineman, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. On 9 Sep 1918 in Birdsboro, Berks, PA. ³

7. Residence: 1214 Windsor St., Reading, Pa. On 9 Sep 1918 in Reading, Berks, PA. ³

8. Cause of Death: coronary occlusion, 13 Dec 1944, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁴

9. Occupation: retired fireman on 13 Dec 1944 in Reading, Berks, PA. ⁴

10. Residence: 231 S. 6th St., Reading, Pa. On 13 Dec 1944 in Reading, Berks, PA. ⁴

Allen married Clara Elizabeth Beechert, daughter of Cornelius Beechert and Sarah Alice Noll, on 21 Dec 1895 in Hamburg, Berks, PA.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorce in Mar 1916. (Clara Elizabeth Beechert was born on 27 Dec 1877 in Host, Berks, PA,^{1 2 9 10 11} died on 24 Feb 1959 in Reading, Berks, PA ^{10 11} and was buried on 28 Feb 1959 in Shillington: Fairview Cemetery, Berks, PA ¹⁰.)