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M Stephen Bishop

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Nota individual

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 419-420:
John Bishop, the owner of a fine 150-acre farm, on Lot 67, N.T.R., Orford township, County of Kent, upon which he resided from 1842 to 1852, moving thence to Zone, where he lived until 1875, when he sold out and purchased the farm on which he now resides, is one of the general farmers of that township, upon whom prosperity has smiled. He was born in Mosa township, County of Middlesex, Ont., Nov. 28, 1832, son of Stephen and Eleanor (Maine) Bishop, of Massachusetts and Ontario, respectively.
Stephen Bishop came to Canada in 1828, and located in County of Middlesex, where he engaged chiefly in farming, although for a time he also drove a stage. In 1842 he located in Orford township, upon the farm which is now the property of our subject, which he rented. His death occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Maggie Congo, in Orford township, in 1878, when he was aged sixty-six years. His wife, Eleanor (Maine), who was born in 1811, had preceded him, dying in 1874, aged sixty-three years. They lie buried in Palmyra cemetery. Both were consistent members of the Baptist Church. The children born to Stephen and Eleanor (Maine) Bishop were: John; Samuel, a carpenter of Wilkesport, Ont.; Daniel, of Galesburg, Michigan; Hannah, of Battle Creek, Michigan, widow of Davidson Chicester; Cynthia, deceased wife of George Eastlake; Sarah, who married Joseph Lee, a farmer of Augusta, Michigan; Maggie, who married James Congo, of Orford township, now living on a fifty-acre farm at Palmyra, which he works; Mary, of Galesburg, Michigan, who married first Rev. Isaac Abbot, and second Rev. Joshua White, both of whom were Methodist ministers; Stephen, an extensive farmer, owning 1800 acres, at Carievale, Assa. East, N.W.T.; George, of Oxbow, Northwest Territory, retired; and Ora, an auditor, at Sarnia, Ontario.