Brief Life History of Leonard Lewis
When Leonard Lewis Bishop was born on 30 March 1906, in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Alfred William Bishop, was 22 and his mother, Amelia May Van Noy, was 21. He married Agnes Thompson on 4 September 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Garland, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 27 February 1990, in Bear River City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Garland Cemetery, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Leonard Louis Bishop, "United States 1950 Census"
- Leonard Lewis Bishop, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Leonard L Bishop, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
1908 · Utah's First National Monument
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
1928 · Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon, being named after Ebenezer Bryce, was designated first as a national monument by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 but was re-designated as a nation park in 1928 by Congress.
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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excerpts from Leonard Bishop's journal
The Story of My Life Compiled & Written by Leonard Lewis Bishop December 1980 (This is the autobiography of Alfred LeRoy Bishop’s brother, Leonard, who is 15 months younger. I, Leslie McClellan Jone …
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