Biography of Philip R. Bishop, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Bishop, Long, Dickenson, Tribulet, Reed, Burkett

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 277

Philip R. Bishop

Mr. Bishop is the son of Philip R. and Jane (Long) Bishop and a native of
London, England, where he received is education and remained until he had
attained the years of his majority. His educational discipline was quite
extensive, being completed in some of the excellent colleges of his native
country. Following the completion of this he embarked for Victoria, British
Columbia, via Cape Horn and for one hundred and forty-seven days he was out of
sight of land. The immediate object of this journey was to locate a brother,
which he did later in New Zealand. He engaged in mining exclusively until
1864, when he came to this county and located at auburn, buying and locating a
group of claims. Afterwards he removed to Mormon Basin and followed ming there
for a time and then gave his attention to stock raising for ten years, after
which he sold out and again embarked in his favorite occupation, mining. At
this time he located a number of quartz claims, among which was the famous
Climax claims, and the opening up of the Climax group of mines in the Cracker
creek district, which consisted in brining this famous property to the
producing point from a mere prospect, represents the climax of all his work.

The marriage of Mr. Bishop and Miss Sarah N. Dickenson, a native of Vermont,
occurred in that state. Some time after he had brought his wife to his western
home, he was called to mourn her death.

Again Mr. Bishop was married, this time Mrs. Samantha a. Tribulet, nee Reed,
became his wife, the ceremony being solemnized in Wyandot county, Ohio, of
which state she was a native. Mrs. Bishop is a niece of Mr. J. F. Burkett,
supreme judge of Ohio. She has three daughters by her first husband. Mr.
Bishop is a man of broad public spirit and has ever wrought with skill and
energy for the advancement of those principles that are for the welfare of
all, while he has displayed characteristics of real worth and virtue that have
commended him to the confidence and esteem of his fellows wherever he is
acquainted.