Box 1
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Biographical Items
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Included is a first person recounting of his World War I service, describing his encounter with trench warfare; a 1960s biographical sketch; and his report card from Pratt Instute, circa 1919
Dates:
1830s-1970s
Biography, 1986
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
This research paper describes Bing's personal and family life, as well as his professional life as a successful architect. Included is a bibliography, footnotes and a listing of 600 buildings he designed or assiseted in designing from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Dates:
1986
Brigham Morris Young, 1854-1931
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
In this history of Bing's father written by Bing's brother, Gaylen, in 1978, there is not only information about Bing's Grandparents, Brigham Young and Margaret Pierce. Although the version in the collection is a poor photocopy, it contains many photographs and the text can be read easily. It provides insights into the life of one of Brigham Youngs's sons, who did not do well financially, and of a turn-of-the-century Utah family with a proud Mormon Heritage but few worldly achievments.
Dates:
1854-1931
Journal Entries, 1918
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Bing describes some of his World War I experiences in a communications outfit, where he was a runner delivering orders and information among various units and who, while doing so, was wounded in his hand.
Dates:
1918
Oral Interview Transcript, ca. 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
This is a photocopy of a transcript of an interview, done by daughter-in-law Barbara Weaver Young and son Dick Young, with Bing and Aleine, ca 1965. Although there are never family and personal insights, some of the most useful part of the interview concerns events in his professional career. It is here that Bing offers his thoughts on how he had his partner, Ed Anderson, were able to obtain the commission to design Kingbury Hall on the University of Utah campus.
Dates:
ca. 1965
Personal Items
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Included are identification cards and some military insignia.
Dates:
1830s-1970s
"Class Paper"
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Bing attended the Lafayette School in the primary grades. This undated paper is written by an unknown author long after graduation and focuses in a humorous way on some of the students who attended the school.
Dates:
1830s-1970s
William Rigby Genealogy, 1838-1903
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Rigby was Aleines's grandfather on her mother's side. This genealogy shows that her mother, Catherine Elizabeth Rigby, was born January 14, 1869 and died November 4, 1940.
Dates:
1838-1903
Certificates
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Included are two birth certificates for Bing, the marriage certificates of Bing and Aleine, Aleine's LDS Temple Recommend, and Bing's army discharge certificate.
Dates:
1830s-1970s
Travel, 1950s-1960s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Of interest is a 1954 decorative passanger and crew listing for the Hawaiian Mainline Stratocruiser. This airplae carried only 24 passangers and a crew of 7. The service was apparently very deluxe.
Dates:
1950s-1960s