Ira Elmore Bishop ( ) The Bishop Family in America Collection, Doc 449 & 450

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1 Ira Elmore Bishop ( ) The Bishop Family in America Collection, Doc 449 & 450 Introduction This collection contains the research of Ira Elmore Bishop ( ) on the Bishop family in America. It was collected and preserved by Dorothy Hart and given to the Vermont Historical Society through Germaine Cook of Claremont, New Hampshire, in August 1995 (ms. acc. no ). It is housed in two document storage boxes and consumes two linear feet of shelf space. Biographical Notes Ira Elmore Bishop was born on 24 June 1905, to Byron A. and Matilda I. (Nickals) Bishop, at Little Black Township, Taylor County, Wisconsin. By his own account he had only... a common school education. He married Matilda M. Stefanik at an unknown date. As a sailor Ira Bishop traveled the world over. Later, as an ironworker and bridge man, he worked in many parts of the United States. By the early 1960 s medical conditions led to his retirement from such an active, traveling life. After he settled in Homewood, Illinois, his attention turned to genealogy, in which he had begun to take an interest just a few years prior. That interest in his past turned into a passion, and by the early 1970 s he was deeply immersed in collecting and analyzing vital data on all Bishops, who arrived in America prior to 1640, and their descendants. Through his research, Ira Bishop met and corresponded with many descendants of those original Bishops, including Mrs. Dorothy Hart. After Ira s death on February 24, 1979, in Homewood, Illinois, his files relating to the Bishop family in America were transferred to Mrs. Hart. Scope & Content The Dorothy Hart Collection consists of a wide variety of documents and correspondence relating to the Bishop family in America. This collection represents the considerable efforts of Ira Elmore Bishop ( ) to collect, document and organize information relating to all North Americans carrying the Bishop surname. In addition to assembled documents describing the ancestry and/or descendants of specific individuals, the collection contains many family group sheets representing work in progress. Family group sheets and other information for those not yet identified with a known Bishop ancestor were kept separately, as were those Bishops and descendants identified as Shakers. In addition, there is a significant amount of information on related surnames, particularly Gilbert.

2 2 The collection also contains many transcribed vital, church and cemetery records, many of which were from the Sherbrooke, Quebec, area. Of special interest to researchers are correspondence and a number of questionnaires filled in by Bishop family members during the period 1903 to These questionnaires were apparently collected by William Whitney Cone (of Brandsville, Howell County, Missouri) and George A. Root (of the State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas) and ultimately transferred to Ira Bishop. During the course of his research, Ira Bishop corresponded with a number of other researchers and family members, and produced a newsletter entitled Bishop Families in America. This collection contains some of that correspondence and those newsletters, including a substantial amount of correspondence between Mr. Bishop and Dorothy Margaret (Sanville) Hart of Claremont, N.H., during the period August 1973 to August Arrangement The collection has been rearranged from the state in which it was received, in order to group like items together. Most of the material originally resided in three-ring binders (some in the binders, some loose). The original grouping of materials included the following: Inventory Grouped together in a single binder: Doc 450:1, 9, 16, 23, 28 & 29. Grouped together in a single binder: Doc 450:7, 10, 11 & 30. Grouped together in a single binder: Doc 449:6 & 24. Grouped together in a single binder: Doc 450:5, 13, 14, 15, 25 & 31. Grouped together in a single binder: Doc 449:16, Doc 450:3, 4 & 27. Grouped together in a single binder: Doc 450:6, 22 & 26. Assembled Bishop Publications Doc Bishop Genealogy, Vol. One, Edition Two, June Bishop Genealogy, Vol. I, Edition III, September Bishop Families (in) America, Book 3, Edition 1, June Contains loose handwritten family group sheet for Anna Bishop, #

3 3 4. Bishop Families in America, June 1967; Bishop Families in America, Xmas 1967; Bishop Families in America, Jan. 1, 1969; Bishop Families in America, 1790 Census. 5. Bishop Families in America, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 1968, and Bishop Families in America, Vol. 2, No. 2, Xmas Bishop Families in America, Book One (Editions One and Two Combined, Jan. 1, 1969). 7. Bishop Families in America: 1790 Census. 8. Bishop Families in America, Book X, Chapter B. Contains family group sheets & information on John Bishop, #B ( c. 1858) and descendants. 9. Bishop Families in America: Stamford, Connecticut, vital records from Congregational Church. 10. [Bishop Genealogy], cover missing(?). Contains miscellaneous information on various Bishops. 11. Bishop Ancestors of Ira Elmore Bishop, No Bishop Ancestors of Dardanus Bishop, No ?. 13. Sarah Bishop # and her Desc. - Chaffee; John Bishop # and his Desc. 14. Ancestors of and Descent from Joy Bishop #1A Direct Desc. From James Bishop #1 To and Thru Charles Bishop #168-12C With His Desc. With the Prefix number C. Family Group Sheets and Related Information 16. Various family group sheets and information. After a number of miscellaneous family group sheets, approximately one-third of this document consists of Book One - Descendants of Dep. Gov. James Bishop. There are smaller portions dedicated to the following: Book Two - Desc. of John Bishop of Newberry, Mass.; Book Three - Desc. of Richard Bishop of Salem, 1628; Book Eight - Desc. of Edward Bishop of Salem, Mass.; Book Nine - Desc. of John Bishop of Guilford, Conn.; Book Ten - Desc. of Rev. John Bishop; Book Eleven - Desc. of Eleazer Bishop; Book Xtra - Ancestor unidentified. 17. Loose papers (apparently belong together), top sheet entitled Book 1, Descent thru #15. Contains family group sheets and information for direct line from Abigail Bishop, #15, down to John Maltby, # Stapled set of family group sheets; top sheet entitled One Direct Line, Book 3. Contains family group sheets and information for direct line from Richard Bishop, #3, to Levi D. Pease, # Loose papers, apparently belonging together. Top sheet entitled Book 8. Contains family group sheets and information on Edward Bishop, #8, and direct line of descent to John Lloyd Stenstron, # Book Ten; Ready Copy & Group Sheets. Contains writeup and family group sheets on John Bishop, # 10, ( ) and his descendants.

4 4 Doc Book 11, Check for pencil copies. Contains family group sheets and information on Eleazer Bishop (c ) and descendants of four of his sons: John, Samuel, Nicholas and Eleazer. 22. Unidentified. Contains family group sheets for Bishops not tied in to other lines. 23. Family group sheets for various Bishop and related lines apparently not yet identified with the main Bishop progenitors in America. 24. Book X. Contains family group sheets and notes, all apparently relating to Bishops and related lines not yet identified with an original Bishop ancestor. 25. Shakers. Contains writeup (25 Nov 1976) on Shaker Bishops and family group sheets and information for direct line from John Bishop, Shaker #1, down to Linda Farroh, Shaker # , and Britton Albert Farroh, Shaker # ; also, Rebecca Bishop, Shaker # Jan. 25, 1977; This: contains copy of all records prepared to date on Desc. of Hannah Bishop #11; Known desc. of Abigail Thompson # are only in the beginning stage and are on family group forms; Also, Eleazer Hemingway # ; Progeny of Marvin Ford # carry the precedant number 1A7-632 which belongs to Belinda Bishop, wife of Marvin Ford A7-6; Ready Copy & Group Sheets. Contains family group sheets and information on Joy Bishop, #1A7-6, and descendants. 28. Work Book, James Bishop. Contains loose notes and family group sheets, with some alphabetical organization (by given name), all apparently relating to descendants of Dep. Gov. James Bishop. There are also some transcriptions of vital records, cemetery inscriptions, obituaries, etc A4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9. Contains family group sheets for some distant descendants of Dep. Gov. James Bishop. 1. Bishop ancestors of Ira Elmore Bishop (1905-), in more or less complete order, with pedigree charts and family group sheets of direct ancestors, preceded by miscellaneous family group sheets. 2. Miscellaneous family group sheets and information re various Bishops and related families. 3. Miscellaneous family group sheets (possibly duplicates or superseded copies), some in plastic sheet protectors. 4. Family group sheet duplicates with mailing list. 5. Miscellaneous family group sheets & notes. 6. Miscellaneous family group sheets & notes. 7. Family group sheet (Ruby Naomi Bishop) and pedigree chart (Wm. George Bishop). 8. Gilbert family notes. Includes family group sheet drafts, notes and transcriptions of vital records.

5 5 9. Douglas family genealogical information. Includes a photocopied extract from The Douglas Nobility. Correspondence 10. Correspondence and Bishop Families in America News Bulletins, March October Much of this correspondence is between Dorothy Hart and Ira Elmore Bishop. 11. Photocopy of a 1 Feb 1914 letter from Donald L. Jacobus to Mr. W. W. Cone, regarding Ebenezer Bishop and family. 12. Correspondence (June September 1975), Bishop Families in America News Bulletins and miscellaneous genealogical information. Included in this folder is a copy of Genealogy of Timothy Clark and his wife Mary Anne (Clarke) Clark as recorded by his grandson Edward L. Clark, Sr., May Correspondence, November February Asa - Shaker #14 - Correspondence (1914, ) and notes. 15. Correspondence and questionnaires, These questionnaires contain a significant amount of 17th to 19th century vital information on early Bishop families. 16. Correspondence, Jun Aug Miscellaneous Articles & Books, and extracts therefrom 17. Lilian Baker Carlisle, ed., Look Around Hinesburg and Charlotte, Vermont (Burlington, Vt.: George Little Press, 1975). 18. Les & Vera Fleury, eds., Chittenden County Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 4, Sep Four page list of abbreviations from Families in Ancient New Haven, by Donald Lines Jacobus. 20. Stapled paper entitled Searching the Old Boston Transcript. 21. A Drive Around Dudswell Pond in the Early Nineteen Hundreds. This is a description of homes in the area followed by an index of those mentioned in the narrative, with vital statistics for some. 22. Various photocopied book excerpts, including The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, various pages; The Goff and Bishop Families, from the Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy, pp ; The Spicer Genealogy, pp. 61-2; Howell s History of Southampton, L. I. (New York, 1887), pp ; Edward E. Atwater s History of the Colony of New Haven (Meriden, Conn.: Journal Publishing Co., 1902), pp plus map of New Haven in 1641; Bishop Families of Connecticut, from Putnam s Monthly Historical Magazine, Jan.-Dec. 1897, New Series Vol. V, pp ;... In Mockery of Monumental Stones, from the Boston Sunday Globe, May 5, 1968.

6 6 23. Photocopy excerpts from Andrews Settlement, pp ; and Birth, Death Records Keys to Unlock Past, from the Chicago Tribune, Suburban Trib, Wednesday, Jan. 5, Photocopy from The Genealogical Exchange, n.d., p Various newspaper clippings re Bishops from the late 1970 s to the early 1980 s. Miscellaneous Documents and Items 26. Bishop and Pease documents, including the following: Paper read by Mary Bishop Pease before a meeting of old settlers at Oswego, N.Y., September 10, 1891; Land Office records showing Bounty Land award to Sylvanus Bishop in 1855, and subsequent transfers to Lewis Bishop in 1856 and to William S. Bishop in Miscellaneous notes regarding Hartland, Vt., cemetery. 28. Miscellaneous documents and photocopies, including: Personal Brag Sheet, by Ira A. Bishop, 18 Jun 1975; annotated photocopy of a topographic map of the Windsor and Ascutney, Vt., area; photocopies of photographs of various Bishops and related individuals. 29. Various transcribed vital records and cemetery inscriptions. 30. Miscellaneous notes related to Bishop Genealogy, Volume One, Edition Two, June Miscellaneous church records and extracts. 32. Bishop Coat of Arms. Bob Murphy February 1999