LOCAL MATTERS.
FAMILY LONGEVITY.--Among the recent deaths in this State is that of Dr. David Bingham, of Grass Lake, who died on the 23d of October at the age of 77. He was the youngest son of Calvin Bingham, who was the father of seven sons and six daughters, all born on the Bingham farm in Bennington, Vermont. One of the sons was the father of Governor Bingham, of this State, and another the father of S. D. Bingham, of this city. Two of these sons were physicians, two clergymen, one of whom was Rev. Hiram Bingham, who went to the Sandwich Islands fifty-one years ago as the first missionary to that important station. Their average age, at the time of their death, was 80 years and 7 months--the eldest dying at 92, and the youngest at 77. All the thirteen sons and daughters lived past the usual age of man before any deaths occurred in the family. These particulars are given as a remarkable case of longevity in a New England family.--Lansing Republican.
Jackson Citizen Patriot - November 17, 1871

Obituary.
The decease of David Bingham, M.D., at his residence in Grass Lake, October 23d, calls for a better tribute than a simple announcement. Born in Bennington, Vt., of a large and highly honorable family, each of whom has filled stations of prominence and usefulness in different parts of our country. Rev. Hiram Bingham, D.D., brother of the deceased, is well known to the Christian world as one of the heroic band of missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, who realized the Christianizing of that pagan race in a single generation. David Bingham was a graduate of Fairfield Medical College, N. Y., class of 1831. He practiced in Syracuse until 1839, when he came to Grass Lake, Mich., and at once entered a large field of practice and became well known as the active friend both of education and the church; remaining for years one of the trustees of the Academy which owed to him its origins and life. But his name has a wider interest by his membership in the first society of anti-slavery men ever organized in the nation. He was one of the leading spirits in the movement as early as 1834, when the society was mobbed in Utica, New York, he, with others being driven from the town, and long carrying marks of violence. Here he long stood alone, but at last saw the triumph of the cause in the overthrow of the nation's wrong. While he was eminent in his profession, he was also highly useful in the church, of which he was one of the early members. As its friend he was ever true, and his councils have proved safe. To-day it is not alone a family and kindred who mourn. Memory quickly spans the interval of years carrying all back to his early efforts for the true and the right, as well as his kind ministrations at the bedside of the suffering.
The Church will inscribe his name on enduring tablets, and justly hold his memory sacred.
GEORGE WILLIAMS.
Jackson Citizen - November 21, 1871

David was a physician and the son of Calvin and Lydia (Denton) Bingham.