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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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
1836–1910 Male
1840–1914 Female
Children (10)
1859–1923 Female
1861–1862 Female
1864–1947 Female
1866–1913 Female
1868–1938 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1805–1870 Male
1810–1845 Female
Siblings (5)
1836–1910 Male
1838–1888 Male
1840–1861 Male
1842–1917 Female
1844–1862 Male
World Events (8)
1846
Age 10
1846
Age 10
1856 · The Town of Santa Claus
Age 20
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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