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Bingham, Judson David

soldier, born May 16, 1831, in Massena Springs, N. Y. He took part in the suppression of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion.

After the war he was successively chief quartermaster of the department of the lakes, assistant quartermaster-general at Washington, being in charge of the bureau a part of the time, as commissioner to audit the Kansas war accounts, and as chief quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant-colonel at the headquarters of the division of the Pacific and the department of the Missouri, and from 1886, at Chicago, Ill., as chief quartermaster of the division of the Missouri.