Levi Bishop

Male10 March 1836–30 January 1910

Brief Life History of Levi

When Levi Bishop was born on 10 March 1836, in Shelby, Indiana, United States, his father, Joshua Bishop, was 31 and his mother, Anna Bishop, was 27. He married Caroline Ferrel on 10 January 1858, in Indianola, Warren, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Greenfield Township, Warren, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. He died on 30 January 1910, in Fowler, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fowler Cemetery, Fowler, Fresno, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Levi Bishop
1836–1910
Caroline Ferrel
1840–1914
Marriage: 10 January 1858
Elector Lucinda Bishop
1859–1923
Eldoria Alice Bishop
1861–1862
Georgia Anne Bishop
1864–1947
Amanda Ollie Bishop
1866–1913
Robert Ward Bishop
1868–1938
Noah Otis Bishop
1871–1934
Truman Leroy Bishop
1874–1874
Charles Ross Bishop
1875–1953
Orlando Perley Bishop
1879–1879
Bishop
1883–1883

Sources (24)

  • Levi Bishop, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
  • Levi Bishop, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934", 1858
  • Levi Bishop, "California Death Index, 1905-1939", 1910

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    10 January 1858Indianola, Warren, Iowa, United States
  • Children (10)

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (5)

    World Events (8)

    1846

    Age 10

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    1846

    Age 10

    Historical Boundaries: 1846: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa, United States

    1856 · The Town of Santa Claus

    Age 20

    The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.

    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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