Brief Life History of John S.
When John S. Bishop was born on 2 February 1840, in McLean, Illinois, United States, his father, Jacob Bishop, was 52 and his mother, Margaret Mary Ann Weedman, was 40. He married Harriet Chesney on 10 April 1862, in McLean, McLean, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Randolph, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Normal, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 30 November 1907, in Heyworth, McLean, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Heyworth Cemetery, Randolph Township, McLean, Illinois, United States.
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- John Bishop in household of Jacob Bishop, "United States Census, 1860"
- John S Bishop, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- John S. Bishop, "BillionGraves Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: McLean, Illinois, United States
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: McLean, Illinois, United States
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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