Brief Life History of Joseph Howard
When Joseph Howard Bishop was born on 17 August 1865, in Independence, Buchanan, Iowa, United States, his father, Sgt. Orris Addison Bishop, was 25 and his mother, Julia Howard, was 22. He married Pearl Randall on 21 November 1887, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 15 October 1911, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Saint Charles, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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- Howard J Bishop in household of Orris A Bishop, "United States Census, 1870"
- J. Howard Bishop, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
- Joseph H. Bishop, "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bissop, biscop, Old English bisc(e)op ‘bishop’, which comes via Latin from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’. The Greek word was adopted early in the Christian era as a title for an overseer of a local community of Christians, and has yielded cognates in every European language: French évêque, Italian vescovo, Spanish obispo, Russian yepiskop, German Bischof, etc. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them a supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on Saint Nicholas's Feast Day. In some instances the surname is from the rare Middle English (Old English) personal name Biscop ‘bishop’. As an Irish surname it is adopted for Mac Giolla Easpaig, meaning ‘servant of the bishop’ (see Gillespie ). In North America, this surname has absorbed, by assimilation and translation, at least some of continental European cognates, e.g. German Bischoff , Polish, Rusyn, Czech, and Slovak Biskup , Slovenian Škof (see Skoff ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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