Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson and son Newton [SHS 015559]

George Caleb Bingham married three times and had six children; only two of his children outlived him. Bingham’s first wife was Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson (1819-1848), whom he married in September 1836. Together they had five children: Isaac Newton (1837-1841), Nathaniel (1840), Horace (1841-1869), Clara (1844-1901), and Joseph Hutchinson (1848).

After Elizabeth died in 1848, Bingham married Eliza Thomas (1828-1876) of Columbia on December 3, 1849. Together they had one son, James Rollins (1861-1910), whom they named after the artist’s friend.

Not long after Eliza’s death in 1876, Bingham married Mattie Livingston Lykins (1824-1890), a widow and family friend from Kansas City. They married on June 18, 1878.

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