Brief Life History of Abraham Franklin
When Abraham Franklin Bishop was born on 5 July 1878, in Baldwin City, Douglas, Kansas, United States, his father, Vernon Verdman Bishop, was 43 and his mother, Susan Ann Honsberger, was 30. He married Susan Francis Hammons on 21 December 1900, in Douglas, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Finley Township, Webster, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Lincoln Township, Douglas, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 12 January 1939, in Douglas, Missouri, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Webster, Missouri, United States.
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- Frank Bishop, "United States Census, 1910"
- Frank Bishop, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Abraham Franklin Bishop, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
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.
1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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