Brief Life History of Clinton Hamilton
When Clinton Hamilton Bishop was born on 10 May 1890, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, his father, William Lincoln Bishop, was 28 and his mother, Cora Jane Strout, was 24. He married Winifred May Brown on 21 October 1915, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Portland Ward 3, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1910 and Portland Ward 5, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1920. He died on 28 June 1966, at the age of 76, and was buried in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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- Clinton H Bishop, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clinton M. Bishop, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Clinton H Bishop, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
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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.
1898 · Sinking of USS Maine
During the Cuban War for Independence, the USS Maine had been sent to Havana to look out for the interests of the United States. On February 15, 1898, at approximately 21:40, an explosion on USS Maine was caused by roughly 5 long tons of powder. The front of the ship was demolished and the remains quickly sunk to the bottom of the ocean. 260 men lost their lives in the explosion itself, with at least six more dying afterwards from related injuries. The event kicked off an atmosphere of contention that would eventually lead to the Spanish-American War.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
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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