Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 2. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 13.

	FRANK W. BISHOP is the owner of one of the good business blocks of Baker,
and therein is conducting a general hardware and plumbing establishment in which
connection he has secured a liberal patronage and makes his business one of the
profitable commercial enterprises of the city.  He was born in Emporia, Kansas,
December 12, 1872, and is a son of Frank and Hannah (White) Bishop.  The father
was born in Whitehouse Lane, Bristol, England, December 16, 1830, his parents
being Thomas and Jane (Thorn) Bishop, who spent their entire lives in England
where the father was a farmer and laborer.  Frank Bishop, Sr., was the second of
seven children and the first to come to the United States, but later two others
followed him, Charles William, who became a resident of Oregon, and Albert, who
made his home in Troy, New York.
	It was in the spring of 1856 that Frank Bishop, Sr., arrived in the United
States.  He spent two years on a schooner on the Puget Sound in connection with
the fur trade.  He had some thrilling experiences with the Indians when in the
northwest in the early days, and on one occasion was held prisoner among them
for a month.  He made his headquarters at Steilacoom, Washington, for several
years and was engaged in prospecting and placer mining which he followed in
connection with the millwright trade until tow years ago when he retired.  He
prospected through nearly all the mountainous states of the west.  On one
occasion he took out twenty-three thousand dollars in gold in three months with
a “rocker,” but spent it inside of a year.  Like many others in search of
precious metal, he gained success, but it was an easy matter to lose one’s gains
in an effort to win still other fortunes.  The history of the northwest in all
its different phases of development and progress is familiar to him, and he was
widely known through the state at an early day.  On one occasion he rode one
hundred and eighty miles on horseback from Steilacoom to Oregon City in order to
vote for Abraham Lincoln.
	In England, in 1872, Frank Bishop was married to Miss Hannah White, who was
born in that country and died in Utah at the age of forty-four years.  They had
a family of six children, of whom four are now living: Frank W. and Thomas W.,
both of Baker; Nellie W., the wife of Marcus Heston, of California; and Charles
W., also living in Baker.
	Frank W. Bishop resided at the place of his birth until nine years of age
when his parents removed from Emporia, Kansas, to Buena Vista, Colorado, where
he continued until he reached the age of sixteen years.  A removal was then made
to Ogden, Utah, where he continued until December, 1900, since which time he has
lived in Baker.  He pursued his education in the public schools until he left
Colorado, and when he started out in life on his own account he worked at any
employment he could secure.  At Odgen he entered the plumbing business as an
apprentice, his term of indenture covering five years, and later he was employed
as a journeyman until February 8, 1903, when he founded his present business,
opening a general hardware and plumbing establishment.  Both departments are
liberally patronized, and his sales have reached a large annual figure.  He owns
the block which he occupies at No. 2108 Main street.  This is a stone structure,
two stories and basement, fifty by one hundred feet.  It is a double store, one
half of which is rented to the Eastern Oregon Light & Power Company.  In
addition to his commercial interests Mr. Bishop is connected with quartz mining
in Baker county.
	On the 2d of June, 1896, in Odgen, Utah, Mr. Bishop was married to Miss
Florence Moore, a native of that place and a daughter of D. M. Moore who has
conducted an extensive nursery business there for the past twenty-five years.
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop became the parents of three children, Virginia M., Norma and
Florence M., but they lost their second daughter in infancy.  In 1904 Mr. Bishop
was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away on the 7th of
March in that year.  In Boise, Idaho, he married Miss Jennie M. Maxwell, a
native of Spokane.
	Fraternally Mr. Bishop is well known, holding membership with the Odd
Fellows, th4e Elks and the Knight of Prythias.  He exemplifies in his life many
of the sterling traits of his English ancestors yet is typically American in
spirit and interests, displaying that determination and progressiveness which
have been characteristics of the northwest in its development and upbuilding.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2015 by Dale Givens, odg -at-
hiwaay.net.

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