Kenneth E. Bingham was born at the Brockton Hospital, Brockton Mass. in 1947, the seventh child of Elizabeth (Prentiss) and Clyde Bingham. He grew up in the single-parent (mother) home at 40 Glenwood Square (House torn down in the 1980s) near the Howard and Foster Shoe Co. He attended Brockton public schools, was an active member of the Y.M.C.A, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. As for his own Brockton history, Ken has memories of great family, friends and neighbors; learning a good work-ethic; swimming and ice skating at D.W. Field Park; a cold house; the Brockton parade to welcome home Rocky