Descendants of John Probart
Lyman Bishop & Maria Sarah Probart
Husband Lyman Bishop 202,264
Born: 19 Mar 1817 - Martinsburg, Lewis, New York, USA 264,265 Christened: Died: 5 Dec 1863 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 264,265,266,267,268 Buried: 16 Dec 1863 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 267,269
Father: Jonathan Bishop (Abt 1772-1852) Mother: Sally Benjamin (1785-1823)
Married: 10 Mar 1847 - Leroy, Dodge, Wisconsin, USA 270,271,272
Noted events in his life were:
• Census 427, 6 Aug 1820 - Martinsburg, Lewis, New York, USA
• Census 428, 1830 - Martinsburg, Lewis, New York, USA
• Immigration 429, 1844 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Occupation 430,431, Harness and Trunk Maker, 14 Dec 1846 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Land 432, Advertisement to Sell Land, 29 May 1847 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Land Sale 433, 6 Jul 1847 - Oakfield, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Land Purchase 434, 31 Jul 1847 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Occupation 435, Saddle, Harness, and Trunk Maker, 2 Sep 1847 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Land Purchase 436, 1 Feb 1848 - , Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Land Purchase 437, 1 Jun 1848 - Oakfield, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 263, 21 Jul 1850 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 360, 1 Jun 1855 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence 438, 1857-1858 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 361, age 43, harness maker, 7 Jun 1860 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Occupation 439, Boarding house, 29 Mar 1862 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Will 440, 9 Sep 1863 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Probate 266, 1 Feb 1864 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
Wife Maria Sarah Probart
Born: 1 Mar 1823 - Leroy, Genesee, New York, USA 261,265,441,442 Christened: Died: 8 Apr 1905 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 265,267,333,371,441,443,444 Buried: 10 Apr 1905 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 267,269,371,441,443,445,446
Father: John Probart Sr. (1780-1851) Mother: Sarah Scott (1794-1872)
Noted events in her life were:
• Census 315, 1830 - Leroy, Genesee, New York, USA
• Census 316, 1840 - Lockport, Niagara, New York, USA
• Census 263, 1850 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 360, 1 Jun 1855 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 361, 7 Jun 1860 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 362, 7 Jun 1870 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 447, 1 Jun 1875 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence 364, 1876 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Travel 326, 31 Aug 1877 - , Faribault, Minnesota, USA
• Land Sale 448, 31 Aug 1877 - , Faribault, Minnesota, USA
• Land Sale 449, 23 Jan 1878 - Lura Township, Faribault, Minnesota, USA
• Census 450, 4 Jun 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 451, 20 Jun 1885 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Church Membership 261, Baptist Church, 1889 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence 442, 1895 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 369, 20 Jun 1895 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Will 452, 9 Sep 1896 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 370, age 73, 2 Jun 1900 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence 371,446, 21 Third street, 8 Apr 1905 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Church Membership 446, Baptist Church, 8 Apr 1905 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Probate 372, 10 Apr 1905 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
Children
1 M Ansel Adolphus Bishop
Born: 14 Oct 1848 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 264,354,355 Christened: Died: 9 Jan 1906 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 356,357 Buried: 11 Jan 1906 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 269,356Spouse: Sarah Augusta Pierce (1848-1913) 375 ,376 Marr: 31 May 1871 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 264 ,355 ,358 ,359
2 M Seth Scott Bishop 453,454,455
Born: 7 Feb 1852 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 261,456,457 Christened: Died: 5 Sep 1923 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA 456,458,459 Buried: 8 Sep 1923 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 456,458,460Spouse: Nellie McQuigg (Abt 1853- ) Marr: 21 Jun 1875 - , Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USASpouse: Jessie A. Button (1860-1928) Marr: 23 Mar 1885 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 264 ,461 ,462 ,463 ,464
Husband's General Notes
Saturday Reporter, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, June 8, 1861, "A GOOD JOB - It is understood that immediate steps will be taken to improve Main Street, from the City hotel to the Post Office, and that the plan to be adopted will be similar to the improvement in front of Lyman Bishop's premises, a heavy base of stone with a light covering of gravel."
Wife's General Notes
The Daily Reporter, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin - newspaper; " A special meeting of Col. C. K. Circle, G.A.R. will be held at 7:30 this evening to arrange for attending the funeral of Mrs. M. P. Bishop. All the ladies of the Circle will meet at the Bishop home at 9:30 Monday morning."
Pierce Levine Bishop & Bessie M. Spring
Husband Pierce Levine Bishop
Born: 13 Feb 1878 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 264,355,359,398 Christened: Died: 25 Jan 1946 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA 398 Buried: 30 Jan 1946 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA 398,399,400
Father: Ansel Adolphus Bishop (1848-1906) Mother: Sarah Augusta Pierce (1848-1913) 375,376
Married: Abt 1907
Noted events in his life were:
• Census 367, 20 Jun 1885 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 385, 7 Jun 1900 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence 372, 10 Apr 1905 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence 398, 1906 - , , California, USA
• Residence 465, 1729 Pleasant Avenue, 1907 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Residence 466, 112 N. Boyle Street, 1908 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Census 467, 21 Apr 1910 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Residence 404, 9 Apr 1912 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Census 468, 2 Jan 1920 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Residence 391, corner of 5th and Spring St., 14 Sep 1927 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Residence 394, 21 Aug 1928 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Census 469, 16 Apr 1930 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Cremated, Inglewood Crematory, 30 Jan 1946 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Wife Bessie M. Spring 401,402
Born: 19 Sep 1873 - Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA 401 Christened: Died: 22 May 1939 - Norwalk, Los Angeles, California, USA 401 Buried: 25 May 1939 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA 399,401
Father: Morris E. Spring (1843-1900) Mother: Mary E. Brown (1847-1916)
Noted events in her life were:
• Census 470, 30 Jun 1880 - Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 471, 25 Jun 1900 - Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 467, 21 Apr 1910 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Census 468, 2 Jan 1920 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Census 469, 16 Apr 1930 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Seth Scott Bishop & Nellie McQuigg
Husband Seth Scott Bishop 453,454,455
Born: 7 Feb 1852 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 261,456,457 Christened: Died: 5 Sep 1923 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA 456,458,459 Buried: 8 Sep 1923 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 456,458,460
Father: Lyman Bishop (1817-1863) 202,264 Mother: Maria Sarah Probart (1823-1905)
Married: 21 Jun 1875 - , Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
Other Spouse: Jessie A. Button (1860-1928) - 23 Mar 1885 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 264,461,462,463,464
Noted events in his life were:
• Census 360, 1855 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 361, 7 Jun 1860 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• School 472, Promoted to Grammer school, 8 Jul 1865 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 362, 7 Jun 1870 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Graduation 454, Pooler Institute, 1870 - , , Wisconsin, USA
• School, Medical department of the University of the City of New York, 1871-1872 - New York, New York, New York, USA
• Occupation, doctor, 1876-1879 - , , Wisconsin, USA
• Graduation, Medical Department of the Northwestern University, 1876 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 450, 4 Jun 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Occupation 473, Doctor License, 1880 - , , Illinois, USA
• Residence 474, 431 Ogden Avenue, 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 475, 298 Ogden Avenue, 1881 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Voter Registration 476, 9 Oct 1888 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 264, 1889 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Voter Registration 477, 1890 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Voter Registration 478, 18 Oct 1892 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 479, 11 Jun 1900 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 480, 1900 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 481, 1901 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 333,371,372, 719 W. Adams St., 8 Apr 1905 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Wrote Book 482, Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat and Their Accessory Cavities, 1906
• Census 483, 19 Apr 1910 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 484, 14 Jan 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 464, 1726 Ridge Avenue, 14 Dec 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Occupation 485, doctor, 19 Jan 1922 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 456, 1726 Ridge Ave., 5 Sep 1923 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
Wife Nellie McQuigg
AKA: Ellen Born: Abt 1853 - , , Wisconsin, USA Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Jesse Young McQuigg (1805-1886) Mother: Sarah Hill (1815-1894)
Other Spouse: Edward G. Miller (Abt 1851- ) - 10 Feb 1888 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 486
Noted events in her life were:
• Census 487, 17 Jul 1860 - Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 488, 18 Jun 1870 - Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 450, 4 Jun 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 489, 28 Jun 1886 - Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin, USA
Husband's General Notes
This is from an unknown source in the possession of Ellen Luecke.
"SETH SCOTT BISHOP, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Dr. Seth Scott Bishop is known to the medical profession of two hemispheres as an author, inventor and specialist. His father, Lyman Bishop and his mother, Maria (Probart) Bishop, of English and Scotch extraction, respectively, were born and reared in New York. Both migrated to Wisconsin during their youth, met and married in Fond du Lac and there built their home, which is to the present day the home of the Doctor's widowed mother. More than fifty years of residence in the same house is suggestive of that continuity of purpose and stability of character which are prerequisites of a successful career. In the "Fountain City," as Fond du Lac is familiarly known, this eminent surgeon was born on February 7, 1852. He attended the public schools of his native town until his health became impaired, but when it became necessary to interrupt his studies to regain his health, instead of choosing a period of rest he preferred a change of occupation. This decision resulted in his entering a printing office and learning the trade in the service of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, during which time he regained his health. With renewed strength the subject of our sketch re-entered school and graduated from a private academy, the Pooler Institute, in 1870. While pursuing his academic course he edited and published a school paper, The Pen, setting the type and printing the paper outside of school hours. This practical knowledge of the art of printing has served a useful purpose during his later career in journal and book work. In 1871 and 1872 he attended the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. In the latter part of this course he was offered a position as proof-reader on Col. Bundy's New York Mail and Express, at twenty-one dollars per week, but as he had not yet completed his course at the University he declined to abbreviate it even for an offer so tempting, as compared with five dollars per week on the Commonwealth, which necessitated half night work.
After leaving the University our embryo doctor worked for a short time in the office of the Brooklyn Eagle, and then applied for a position with the publishing firm of Harper Brothers. There was only one vacancy to be filled, and that, being in the magazine department, required a knowledge of the Greek language, which had not, like Latin, been included in his academic studies. Here marked an important turning-point in his career. Determined to lack nothing which would fit him for any position he might wish, he decided to acquire a higher literary education. So, with the aid of private tutors, such as Rev. T.G. Smith, of Fond du Lac, and Professor Pettibone, he accomplished three years of preparatory work in a year and a quarter, and then pursued a classical course of study in college at Beloit. At this point the college boy's health again failed, and for another diversion, after a brief period of recreation, he turned again to his medical books, entered the Medical Department of the Northwestern University, and took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1876. For the succeeding three years the Doctor engaged in general practice in Wisconsin and Minnesota, removing to Chicago in 1879. In the wider field afforded by a metropolis, his genius has found freer scope, and his career during the past twenty years has been a succession of professional triumphs and a record of benefits rendered to suffering humanity. Dr. Bishop has served on the medical staffs of the South Side and the West Side Free Dispensaries, and has been consulting surgeon to the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home ever since its foundation. He is a surgeon to the Post-Graduate Hospital, and to the Illinois Hospital. He was for fifteen years a surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and is at present consulting surgeon to the Mary Thompson Hospital, and to the Silver Cross Hospital, of Joliet. He is Professor of Otology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, and Professor of Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear in the Illinois Medical College. The recently established Chicago Physiological School, which is in affiliation with the University of Chicago, has appointed him a Consulting Surgeon to that institution.
During his widely extended practice, covering a period of more than two decades, Dr. Bishop has frequently found himself confronted with difficulties arising from the want of instruments precisely adapted to the wants of the practitioner in his own special department of work. Bringing to bear upon these problems his own technical knowledge and an aptitude for invention not always found, even in the most eminent practitioners, he has devised various instruments and appliances which have been extensively adopted by his professional brethren. Among these are a massage otoscope, an improved tonsillotome, a middle-ear curette, an ossicle vibrator, a compressed-air-meter, an adjustable illuminating apparatus, a light concentrator, a cold-wire snare, an improved middle-ear inflator, a camphor-menthol inhaler (he is the discoverer of camphor-menthol), powder blowers, a nasal knife, an automatic tuning fork, an ear aspirator, a combined periosteum elevator, chisels, gouges, and a guide for mastoid operations, etc.
He is an honored member of the State Medical Societies of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, of the Chicago Pathological Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, and is Vice-President of the United States Hay Fever Association. He has been repeatedly chosen to represent one or more of these scientific organizations at the meetings of the International Medical Congress, the British Medical Association, and the Pan-American Medical Congress. Before most of these bodies he has read papers and delivered addresses of rare interest and value. Dr. Bishop has also contributed extensively to medical journals, and is an author of high repute. He is a clear and facile writer, and his many brochures upon various subjects, but mostly connected with Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat and their treatment have attracted wide attention. Among some of the most noteworthy may be mentioned those entitled "Hay Fever," the "Pathology of Hay Fever," both being first-prize essays of the United States Hay Fever Association; "Cocaine in Hay Fever," a lecture delivered at the Chicago Medical College; a "Statistical Report of Twenty-one Thousand Cases of Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat," etc. His practical text-book on the "Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat, and Their Accessory Cavities," appeared in 1897. Within a few months the first large edition was exhausted, and this was followed by enlarged and revised editions, which have been adopted in a large number of medical colleges as a text-book. The Doctor is one of the editors of the Laryngoscope, a monthly journal devoted to Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, which has a wide circulation in all English-speaking countries, and he is the editor of the Illinois Medical Bulletin.
In a social way Dr. Bishop has been honored by membership in a large number of fraternities, beginning with the college Greek letter society, the Beta Theta Pi, Beloit Chapter, and ending with the orders of Knight Templar, the Thirty-second degree, and the Shrine in Masonry. His family consists of his wife and two children, Jessie and Mable, and they are his inseparable companions at home and in travel."
Seth Scott Bishop & Jessie A. Button
Husband Seth Scott Bishop 453,454,455
Born: 7 Feb 1852 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA 261,456,457 Christened: Died: 5 Sep 1923 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA 456,458,459 Buried: 8 Sep 1923 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 456,458,460
Father: Lyman Bishop (1817-1863) 202,264 Mother: Maria Sarah Probart (1823-1905)
Married: 23 Mar 1885 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 264,461,462,463,464
Other Spouse: Nellie McQuigg (Abt 1853- ) - 21 Jun 1875 - , Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
Noted events in his life were:
• Census 360, 1855 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 361, 7 Jun 1860 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• School 472, Promoted to Grammer school, 8 Jul 1865 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Census 362, 7 Jun 1870 - Fond Du Lac, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
• Graduation 454, Pooler Institute, 1870 - , , Wisconsin, USA
• School, Medical department of the University of the City of New York, 1871-1872 - New York, New York, New York, USA
• Occupation, doctor, 1876-1879 - , , Wisconsin, USA
• Graduation, Medical Department of the Northwestern University, 1876 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 450, 4 Jun 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Occupation 473, Doctor License, 1880 - , , Illinois, USA
• Residence 474, 431 Ogden Avenue, 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 475, 298 Ogden Avenue, 1881 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Voter Registration 476, 9 Oct 1888 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 264, 1889 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Voter Registration 477, 1890 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Voter Registration 478, 18 Oct 1892 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 479, 11 Jun 1900 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 480, 1900 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 481, 1901 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 333,371,372, 719 W. Adams St., 8 Apr 1905 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Wrote Book 482, Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat and Their Accessory Cavities, 1906
• Census 483, 19 Apr 1910 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 484, 14 Jan 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 464, 1726 Ridge Avenue, 14 Dec 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Occupation 485, doctor, 19 Jan 1922 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 456, 1726 Ridge Ave., 5 Sep 1923 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
Wife Jessie A. Button
Born: 15 Mar 1860 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 490 Christened: Died: 26 Dec 1928 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA 484,490,491 Buried: 28 Dec 1928 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 460,490,491
Father: Peter Parke Button (1816-1882) Mother: Eliza Wilson (Abt 1820-1900)
Noted events in her life were:
• Census 492, 16 Jul 1860 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 493, 20 Jul 1870 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 494, age 20, 11 Jun 1880 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 495, Jun 1900 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 483, 19 Apr 1910 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Census 484, 14 Jan 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 464, 1726 Ridge Avenue, 14 Dec 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence 490, 1141 Hinman Ave., 26 Dec 1928 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA
Children
1 F Jessie Elizabeth Bishop
AKA: Sadie E. Born: 27 Dec 1885 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 264,496,497 Christened: Died: 14 Dec 1920 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA 464,497,498 Buried: 16 Dec 1920 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 460,497,498
2 F Mable Button Bishop 464
Born: 25 Apr 1888 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 264,499 Christened: Died: 26 Feb 1957 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA 460,500,501 Buried: 28 Feb 1957 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA 460,500
Husband's General Notes
This is from an unknown source in the possession of Ellen Luecke.
"SETH SCOTT BISHOP, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Dr. Seth Scott Bishop is known to the medical profession of two hemispheres as an author, inventor and specialist. His father, Lyman Bishop and his mother, Maria (Probart) Bishop, of English and Scotch extraction, respectively, were born and reared in New York. Both migrated to Wisconsin during their youth, met and married in Fond du Lac and there built their home, which is to the present day the home of the Doctor's widowed mother. More than fifty years of residence in the same house is suggestive of that continuity of purpose and stability of character which are prerequisites of a successful career. In the "Fountain City," as Fond du Lac is familiarly known, this eminent surgeon was born on February 7, 1852. He attended the public schools of his native town until his health became impaired, but when it became necessary to interrupt his studies to regain his health, instead of choosing a period of rest he preferred a change of occupation. This decision resulted in his entering a printing office and learning the trade in the service of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, during which time he regained his health. With renewed strength the subject of our sketch re-entered school and graduated from a private academy, the Pooler Institute, in 1870. While pursuing his academic course he edited and published a school paper, The Pen, setting the type and printing the paper outside of school hours. This practical knowledge of the art of printing has served a useful purpose during his later career in journal and book work. In 1871 and 1872 he attended the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. In the latter part of this course he was offered a position as proof-reader on Col. Bundy's New York Mail and Express, at twenty-one dollars per week, but as he had not yet completed his course at the University he declined to abbreviate it even for an offer so tempting, as compared with five dollars per week on the Commonwealth, which necessitated half night work.
After leaving the University our embryo doctor worked for a short time in the office of the Brooklyn Eagle, and then applied for a position with the publishing firm of Harper Brothers. There was only one vacancy to be filled, and that, being in the magazine department, required a knowledge of the Greek language, which had not, like Latin, been included in his academic studies. Here marked an important turning-point in his career. Determined to lack nothing which would fit him for any position he might wish, he decided to acquire a higher literary education. So, with the aid of private tutors, such as Rev. T.G. Smith, of Fond du Lac, and Professor Pettibone, he accomplished three years of preparatory work in a year and a quarter, and then pursued a classical course of study in college at Beloit. At this point the college boy's health again failed, and for another diversion, after a brief period of recreation, he turned again to his medical books, entered the Medical Department of the Northwestern University, and took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1876. For the succeeding three years the Doctor engaged in general practice in Wisconsin and Minnesota, removing to Chicago in 1879. In the wider field afforded by a metropolis, his genius has found freer scope, and his career during the past twenty years has been a succession of professional triumphs and a record of benefits rendered to suffering humanity. Dr. Bishop has served on the medical staffs of the South Side and the West Side Free Dispensaries, and has been consulting surgeon to the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home ever since its foundation. He is a surgeon to the Post-Graduate Hospital, and to the Illinois Hospital. He was for fifteen years a surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and is at present consulting surgeon to the Mary Thompson Hospital, and to the Silver Cross Hospital, of Joliet. He is Professor of Otology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, and Professor of Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear in the Illinois Medical College. The recently established Chicago Physiological School, which is in affiliation with the University of Chicago, has appointed him a Consulting Surgeon to that institution.
During his widely extended practice, covering a period of more than two decades, Dr. Bishop has frequently found himself confronted with difficulties arising from the want of instruments precisely adapted to the wants of the practitioner in his own special department of work. Bringing to bear upon these problems his own technical knowledge and an aptitude for invention not always found, even in the most eminent practitioners, he has devised various instruments and appliances which have been extensively adopted by his professional brethren. Among these are a massage otoscope, an improved tonsillotome, a middle-ear curette, an ossicle vibrator, a compressed-air-meter, an adjustable illuminating apparatus, a light concentrator, a cold-wire snare, an improved middle-ear inflator, a camphor-menthol inhaler (he is the discoverer of camphor-menthol), powder blowers, a nasal knife, an automatic tuning fork, an ear aspirator, a combined periosteum elevator, chisels, gouges, and a guide for mastoid operations, etc.
He is an honored member of the State Medical Societies of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, of the Chicago Pathological Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, and is Vice-President of the United States Hay Fever Association. He has been repeatedly chosen to represent one or more of these scientific organizations at the meetings of the International Medical Congress, the British Medical Association, and the Pan-American Medical Congress. Before most of these bodies he has read papers and delivered addresses of rare interest and value. Dr. Bishop has also contributed extensively to medical journals, and is an author of high repute. He is a clear and facile writer, and his many brochures upon various subjects, but mostly connected with Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat and their treatment have attracted wide attention. Among some of the most noteworthy may be mentioned those entitled "Hay Fever," the "Pathology of Hay Fever," both being first-prize essays of the United States Hay Fever Association; "Cocaine in Hay Fever," a lecture delivered at the Chicago Medical College; a "Statistical Report of Twenty-one Thousand Cases of Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat," etc. His practical text-book on the "Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat, and Their Accessory Cavities," appeared in 1897. Within a few months the first large edition was exhausted, and this was followed by enlarged and revised editions, which have been adopted in a large number of medical colleges as a text-book. The Doctor is one of the editors of the Laryngoscope, a monthly journal devoted to Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, which has a wide circulation in all English-speaking countries, and he is the editor of the Illinois Medical Bulletin.
In a social way Dr. Bishop has been honored by membership in a large number of fraternities, beginning with the college Greek letter society, the Beta Theta Pi, Beloit Chapter, and ending with the orders of Knight Templar, the Thirty-second degree, and the Shrine in Masonry. His family consists of his wife and two children, Jessie and Mable, and they are his inseparable companions at home and in travel."
Michael Musser & Ellura Blanchard
Husband Michael Musser
Born: 5 Aug 1820 - Penns Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA 502 Christened: 10 Sep 1820 - Penns Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA Died: 27 Dec 1871 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA 502 Buried: Dec 1871 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA
Father: Michael Moser (Bef 1788- ) Mother: Hannah Lilly (1792-Abt 1878)
Married: 17 Apr 1861 - , Ionia, Michigan, USA 503,504
Other Spouse: Mary Ann Probart (1819-1859) 505 - Abt 1845 - Of, Niagara, New York, USA
Noted events in his life were:
• Census 506, farmer, 29 Aug 1850 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA
• Census 507, age 42, farmer, 16 Jul 1860 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA
• Census 508, 23 Jul 1870 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA
Wife Ellura Blanchard
Born: Jul 1838 - , , Canada 509 Christened: Died: Buried:
Noted events in her life were:
• Census 508, 23 Jul 1870 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA
• Census 510, age 41, 19 Jun 1880 - Pewamo, Ionia, Michigan, USA
• Census 509, age 61, widow, 12 Jun 1900 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA
Children
1 M Nathan Musser
Born: Abt 1863 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA 511 Christened: Died: Buried:
2 F Lucy Musser
Born: Jun 1867 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA 511 Christened: Died: Buried:
3 M William Musser
Born: Jul 1869 - Portland, Ionia, Michigan, USA 509 Christened: Died: Buried:
Husband's General Notes
DEATH: Death and burial - Alisha Miller Johnson went to the cemetery Micheal Musser was also there his enformation is "died Dec. 27 1871, 51yrs 4 mos 22days" Micheal's head stone was still standing. 4-2001 gmw
Contact Information
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