Brief Life History of Samuel Dennis
When Samuel Dennis Bishop was born on 18 December 1793, in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Nathan Bishop, was 31 and his mother, Mary J. Covert, was 29. He married Huldah Daniels on 8 June 1819, in Weston, Black Creek Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Monroe Township, Monroe, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Troy Township, Monroe, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 17 January 1881, in Albia, Monroe, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87.
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- Samuel D Bishop, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sam'l Bishop in entry for Sarah Clark, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
- Samule Bishop in household of John Clark, "United States Census, 1880"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1802 · Brass is Discovered
In 1802, brass was identified in Waterbury, Connecticut. This gave the city the nickname "The Brass City." Brass dominated the city and helped to create the city. The motto of the city is Quid Aere Perennius, which means What is more lasting than brass? in Latin.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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