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| Isaac T. Bishop, Sr. and Lydia J. Clemons Biship Oakwood Cemetery, Somers, Wisconsin (Source: Photo courtesy Larry & Linda Kopet US GenWeb Archives Project Wis.) |
The Hon. Isaac T. Bishop, former Senator from the Third senatorial district of
The former senator was a native of Kenosha Somers June 6, 1844, a son of the late Jacob and Fanny (Potter) Bishop, who were among the earliest pioneers of this section of Wisconsin Somers
Senator Bishop was educated in the common schools of his home town and when he completed his school he worked as a clerk in the store of Doan & Hawle. He remained in the store for a year when he heard the call to service in the Union army and served extensively including the Battle of Port Gibson, Champion’s Hills, and the Siege of Vicksburg.
After he had been honorable discharged from the Union Army he returned to the farm in the town of Somers village of Somers Somers
Senator Bishop was recognized as leader of the Republicans in Racine and Kenosha Counties
Senator Bishop had always been a leader in the social life of the town of Somers Utica , New York University of Chicago
May 23, 1912 Mrs. Lydia Oswego County , New York , July 3, 1846 and was a daughter of Hosea and Eliza (Wallace) Clemons, who came to this area of Wisconsin
(Source: Racine Journal Times, publication date July 19, 1920)Isaac Bishop Wedding Announcement (April 8, 1915)
Isaac T. Bishop Civil War History
Isaac T. Bishop has lived in Somers Township all his life. The outbreak of the Civil War interrupted the quiet current of his life just as it did the thousands of others who answered the call of country in the fateful years of 1861-1864.
On September 9, 1862, Mr. Bishop enlisted under Chief of Police Bradley of Chicago, in Battery B, First Illinois Light Artillery, and was ordered to report to the Battery then located at Memphis, Tenn. The quota of the Battery having been filled, he enlisted in Company C, 55th Illinois, Vol. Infantry. During the siege of Vicksburg he was assigned to special duty in the Ordnance Department of the 15th Army Corps. After the capitulation of Vicksburg, he was transferred to the Post Ordnance Department. In January 1864, he was assigned to duty in the Ordnance Department, Military Division of the Mississippi, located at Nashville, Tenn., by order of Lieut. Gen. U.S. Grant, where he remained until the close of the War, in May 1865. He enlisted as a private, and was mustered out as Assistant Ordnance Officer. Seven days after joining the 55th regiment, he participated in the Battle of Chancellorsville and his regiment soon after went down the Mississippi River to Young's Point, opposite Vicksburg, where in the summer of 1863, they helped to dig the canal which was usually called by the soldiers, "Grant's Ditch," which is destined some day to cut an important figure in navigation. A force of 25,000 men was engaged for three months in digging this canal. The object was to cut off and leave Vicksburg an inland town, and the work was in charge of Generals Grant and Sherman.
General Grant then threw his Army across the river to Grand Gulf, where he met General Pemberton in command of the Confederate forces, who fought stubbornly from Grand Gulf to Raymond, and next at Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, ending with the siege of Vicksburg. Mr. Bishop carried a gun and participated in all of that campaign, and was finally mustered out of the service at Nashville, Tenn. He returned to his home in Somers Township and again became a farmer with his brother.
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of Racine and Kenosha Counties, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago 1906)
About Lydia J. Clemons Bishop
The Death Angel has again visited Somers and taken one of our oldest and best known pioneers. On Thursday afternoon, May 23, 1912., Mrs. Lydia J. Clemons Bishop gently dropped the threads of this earthly existence and peacefully passed to her heavenly Home, after suffering many weeks from a complication of diseases.
Lydia J. Clemons was born in Oswego County, New York, July 3, 1846. She was a daughter of Hosea and Eliza (Wallace) Clemons, who came to Wisconsin from New York in 1846 and settled in Mt. Pleasant, Racine County, where they lived until their death. She was a woman of high educational attainments, educated in the common schools and later attending the Racine Kenosha High Schools.
At the age of sixteen years the mother died leaving her the oldest daughter in a family of nine children. Her splendid, unselfish devotion endeared her to to the whole family and bears sufficient evidence to the nobility of her character. November 28, 1866, she was united in marriage to Isaac T. Bishop, who survives her. Five children were born to this union. Three of whom are living, Adelmer A. of Racine, Edwin S. of Chicago, and Benjamin H. of Somers her. The funeral services were held from the late home on Saturday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Johnson, assisted by the Rev. Bruhn. A quartet from Racine, directed by Russell Lewis, Jr., sang some of the dear old hymns. A large concourse of surviving friends followed the remains to its resting place in Oakwood Cemetery.
(Source: Racine Journal, publication date June 4, 1912)
Benjamin H. Bishop
"Benjamin H. Bishop, an enterprising young agriculturist of Kenosha County and a representative of one of its well known pioneer families, owns and operates a farm of forty acres on Section 16, Somers Township, which he purchased from his father three years ago. His birth occurred in that township on the 18th of June 1887, his parents being Isaac T. and Lydia Jane (Clemens) Bishop.
Benjamin H. Bishop attended the common schools until sixteen years of age and subsequently assisted his father in the work of the fields until 1913, when he was married and established a home of his own, purchasing forty acres of land from his father on Section 16, Somers Township. His labors as an agriculturist are attended with excellent success and bring him a gratifying annual income.
When a young man of twenty six years, Mr. Bishop was united in marriage to Miss Annette Sorensen, a daughter of Chris and Marie (Christensen) Sorensen, both of whom were born in Denmark. They now have a daughter, Lydia Jane.
Mr. Bishop gives his political allegiance to the Republican party while his religious faith is that of the Methodist Church. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America belonging to Camp No. 828. His entire life has been spent within the borders of Kenosha County.
(Source: City and County of Kenosha, Vol. II, Chicago, S.J. Clark Publishing Co. 1916)
Isaac and Lydia Children
Five sons:
John G., who was drowned in August 1902 while in the employ of the St. Paul Railway Company, married Maggie Fitzgerald, of Somers Township, and had two daughters, Arvilla L. and Delia M.
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Adelmar A., a graduate of the State Normal School at Whitewater, and formerly for nine years bookkeeper for the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co., and now in the laundry business at Racine, married Maud E. Thompson, and has one son, Gordon A.
Issac T. died at the age of eighteen years
Edwin S., a graduate of the State University at Madison, taught two years there in the Pyhsics Department, and at present occupies the chair of Physics in the East Division High School at Milwaukee.
James Spence Bishop
Funeral services for the late (James) Spence Bishop whose death occurred in Texas last week, were held from the Hansen Funeral Home, Kenosha, Saturday afternoon, Rev. Hogan of the Plymouth Congregational Church officiating. The remains were interred beside his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Bishop, at the Oakwood Cemetery.
(Source: Racine Journal Times, publication date March 10, 1933).
Benjamin H. is at home (see biography above)
Isaac T. Bishop has lived in Somers Township all his life. The outbreak of the Civil War interrupted the quiet current of his life just as it did the thousands of others who answered the call of country in the fateful years of 1861-1864.
On September 9, 1862, Mr. Bishop enlisted under Chief of Police Bradley of Chicago, in Battery B, First Illinois Light Artillery, and was ordered to report to the Battery then located at Memphis, Tenn. The quota of the Battery having been filled, he enlisted in Company C, 55th Illinois, Vol. Infantry. During the siege of Vicksburg he was assigned to special duty in the Ordnance Department of the 15th Army Corps. After the capitulation of Vicksburg, he was transferred to the Post Ordnance Department. In January 1864, he was assigned to duty in the Ordnance Department, Military Division of the Mississippi, located at Nashville, Tenn., by order of Lieut. Gen. U.S. Grant, where he remained until the close of the War, in May 1865. He enlisted as a private, and was mustered out as Assistant Ordnance Officer. Seven days after joining the 55th regiment, he participated in the Battle of Chancellorsville and his regiment soon after went down the Mississippi River to Young's Point, opposite Vicksburg, where in the summer of 1863, they helped to dig the canal which was usually called by the soldiers, "Grant's Ditch," which is destined some day to cut an important figure in navigation. A force of 25,000 men was engaged for three months in digging this canal. The object was to cut off and leave Vicksburg an inland town, and the work was in charge of Generals Grant and Sherman.
General Grant then threw his Army across the river to Grand Gulf, where he met General Pemberton in command of the Confederate forces, who fought stubbornly from Grand Gulf to Raymond, and next at Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, ending with the siege of Vicksburg. Mr. Bishop carried a gun and participated in all of that campaign, and was finally mustered out of the service at Nashville, Tenn. He returned to his home in Somers Township and again became a farmer with his brother.
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of Racine and Kenosha Counties, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago 1906)
About Lydia J. Clemons Bishop
The Death Angel has again visited Somers and taken one of our oldest and best known pioneers. On Thursday afternoon, May 23, 1912., Mrs. Lydia J. Clemons Bishop gently dropped the threads of this earthly existence and peacefully passed to her heavenly Home, after suffering many weeks from a complication of diseases.
Lydia J. Clemons was born in Oswego County, New York, July 3, 1846. She was a daughter of Hosea and Eliza (Wallace) Clemons, who came to Wisconsin from New York in 1846 and settled in Mt. Pleasant, Racine County, where they lived until their death. She was a woman of high educational attainments, educated in the common schools and later attending the Racine Kenosha High Schools.
At the age of sixteen years the mother died leaving her the oldest daughter in a family of nine children. Her splendid, unselfish devotion endeared her to to the whole family and bears sufficient evidence to the nobility of her character. November 28, 1866, she was united in marriage to Isaac T. Bishop, who survives her. Five children were born to this union. Three of whom are living, Adelmer A. of Racine, Edwin S. of Chicago, and Benjamin H. of Somers her. The funeral services were held from the late home on Saturday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Johnson, assisted by the Rev. Bruhn. A quartet from Racine, directed by Russell Lewis, Jr., sang some of the dear old hymns. A large concourse of surviving friends followed the remains to its resting place in Oakwood Cemetery.
(Source: Racine Journal, publication date June 4, 1912)
Benjamin H. Bishop
"Benjamin H. Bishop, an enterprising young agriculturist of Kenosha County and a representative of one of its well known pioneer families, owns and operates a farm of forty acres on Section 16, Somers Township, which he purchased from his father three years ago. His birth occurred in that township on the 18th of June 1887, his parents being Isaac T. and Lydia Jane (Clemens) Bishop.
Benjamin H. Bishop attended the common schools until sixteen years of age and subsequently assisted his father in the work of the fields until 1913, when he was married and established a home of his own, purchasing forty acres of land from his father on Section 16, Somers Township. His labors as an agriculturist are attended with excellent success and bring him a gratifying annual income.
When a young man of twenty six years, Mr. Bishop was united in marriage to Miss Annette Sorensen, a daughter of Chris and Marie (Christensen) Sorensen, both of whom were born in Denmark. They now have a daughter, Lydia Jane.
Mr. Bishop gives his political allegiance to the Republican party while his religious faith is that of the Methodist Church. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America belonging to Camp No. 828. His entire life has been spent within the borders of Kenosha County.
(Source: City and County of Kenosha, Vol. II, Chicago, S.J. Clark Publishing Co. 1916)
Isaac and Lydia Children
Five sons:
John G., who was drowned in August 1902 while in the employ of the St. Paul Railway Company, married Maggie Fitzgerald, of Somers Township, and had two daughters, Arvilla L. and Delia M.
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| John G. Bishop 1870-1902 (32 years) Oakwood Cemetery, Somers, Wisconsin (Source: Photo courtesy Larry & Linda Kopet US GenWeb Archives Project Wis.) |
Adelmar A., a graduate of the State Normal School at Whitewater, and formerly for nine years bookkeeper for the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co., and now in the laundry business at Racine, married Maud E. Thompson, and has one son, Gordon A.
Issac T. died at the age of eighteen years
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| Isaac T. Bishop, son of Isaac T. Bishop and Lydia J. Clemons (1878-1896) 18 years old Oakwood Cemetery, Somers, Township (Source: Photo courtesy Larry & Linda Kopet US GenWeb Archives Project Wis.) |
Edwin S., a graduate of the State University at Madison, taught two years there in the Pyhsics Department, and at present occupies the chair of Physics in the East Division High School at Milwaukee.
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| Edwin Sherwood Bishop, son of Isaac and Lydia J. Clemons Bishop Born July 14, 1880. Died July 31, 1916 in Chicago at age 36. Working in Chicago as a Teacher. Married to Florence Melissa Spence, daughter of James Alexander Spence and Frances Amelia Strong Spence. Florence was born April 15, 1879. Died June 1930. James Spence Bishop, son of Edwin Sherwood and Florence Melissa Spence Bishop James born July 26, 1910 and died February 28, 1933. Born in Chicago. See below. (Source: Photo courtesy Larry & Linda Kopet US GenWeb Archives Project Wis.) |
James Spence Bishop
Funeral services for the late (James) Spence Bishop whose death occurred in Texas last week, were held from the Hansen Funeral Home, Kenosha, Saturday afternoon, Rev. Hogan of the Plymouth Congregational Church officiating. The remains were interred beside his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Bishop, at the Oakwood Cemetery.
(Source: Racine Journal Times, publication date March 10, 1933).
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| Edwin Sherwood Bishop, son of Edwin Sherwood Bishop and Florence Melissa Spence Bishop 1915-1947 Oakwood Cemetery, Somers, Township (Source: Photo courtesy Larry & Linda Kopet US GenWeb Archives Project Wis.) |
Isaac T. Bishop Biography
Lived in Section 16. Born in Somers in 1845. His father, Jacob Bishop was one of the early settlers who came to Wisconsin in 1839 and brought his family in 1842, locating on the farm where he now lives. At the age of 16, Isaac engaged as clerk in the dry goods store of Seth Doom in Kenosha. September 9, 1862, he enlisted in Taylor's Battery, at Chicago, Ill. He was transferred to the 55th Ill V.I. and detached from that to the Ordnance Dept, Military Division of the Mississippi serving in the capacity of Ordnance Office until the close of the war. He participated in the battle of Champion Hills, Miss.; Raymond, Black River and others; also in the siege of Vicksburg; returning to Kenosha, he was in 1867 elected Justice of the Peace of Somers, holding that position at present. He married, in 1866, Miss Lydia Clemens, a native of Wisconsin. He has three sons and owns 160 acres.
(Source: History of Racine Kenosha Counties 1879)
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