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Milton Hallman Bingeman
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Businessman.
Born at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario on 4 July 1880, only son of eight children born to Joseph Brubacher Bingeman (1847-1907) and Leah Snyder Hallman (1851-1929), he came to Winnipeg in 1900 and began working as a junior clerk for the Great West Life Assurance Company and helped to organize its Actuarial Department. While residing on the top floor of the YMCA Building, he played competitive football and basketball and was an active member of the Winnipeg Rowing Club.
In 1912, the company transferred him to Toronto as a representative for Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Three years later, he was appointed Assistant Manager for Ontario. He returned to Winnipeg in 1919 to organize the Group Life Department, retiring in 1946 after 46 years of continuous service for the company, at which time he was Agency Secretary. In 1947, he was appointed as a rental appeals commissioner for the Wartime Price and Trade Board and for a period of two years adjudicated approximately 200 disputes between renters and landlords in Manitoba.
On 11 September 1912, he married Fanny Alberta “Frainie” Reesor (1880-1972) and they had three children: Elizabeth Reesor “Betsy” Bingeman (1915-2013, wife of Jack Albert Carr), Joseph Edward Reesor Bingeman, and Catherine Ann “Kit” Bingeman (1922-2013, wife of John Donaldson Stevenson). He was a long-time member of St. Andrews River Heights United Church, Masons (33rd degree), Khartum Shriners, and Royal Order of Scotland.
He died at his Winnipeg residence, 342 Dromore Avenue, on 11 October 1966 and was buried with his wife in the Garry Memorial Park. His honorary pallbearers were George Campbell, David Eckford Kilgour, Henry William “Harry” Manning, A. J. D. Morgan, Dr. J. L. McInnis, William Allen McKnight, and George Allan Wilson.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Bingeman House (342 Dromore Avenue, Winnipeg)
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 October 1966, page 42.
This page was prepared by Blair Bingeman and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 January 2025
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