C. A. Bishop Is Dead
Cary A. Bishop, 710 Merchant, former Emporia mayor and city mail carrier, died Thursday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock in the Newman Memorial County Hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 days. Mr. Bishop has been in failing health for some time.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Roberts-Blue Funeral home. Rev. Hugh B. Fouke, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will conduct the services. The body will be cremated.
Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, of the home; four sons, Charles A. Bishop, Los Angeles, Calif.; Harold B. Bishop, Kansas City, Mo.; Sgt. John Lynn Bishop, Spence Field Ga., and S2-c Ralph E. Bishop. Great lakes Naval Training Station; two daughters, Mrs. Kenyon Green, Twin Falls, Ia., and Mrs. Everett E. Davis, 115 S. Merchant; two brothers, James Marion Bishop, Route 1, Emporia, and William D Bishop, Cleveland, Ohio; five grand-daughters and one grandson, Jimmie Bishop, 619 West Sixth, Emporia. Mrs. Kenyon Green, Harold Bishop, and Sgt. John Lynn Bishop are in Emporia and are at the Bishop home, 710 Merchant. Seaman Ralph E. Bishop is expected to arrive in Emporia this evening.
Cary A. Bishop was born in Monmouth, Ill., February 23, 1862, and came to Kansas with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Peter Bishop, in 1866. May 1, 1866 the Bishops moved to the farm they had bought half a mile east of the Rinker school house, which ever since has been in the Bishop family, and now is the home of the James Marion Bishops. C. A. Bishop attended the Rinker School, and later attended the Normal School, walking back and forth from his hometown every day. He was graduated from the academic course in 1883.
Following this he taught two terms in the Kirkendall neighborhood, where the late Omer Kirkendall was one of his pupils, and one term at Bunker Hill. Next he took a year's post graduate course at the Normal, then a short course in the first Emporia business college, under its founder the Rev. O.W. Miller, a minister in the Christian Church. He taught his home school, was superintendent of schools at Atwood a year and at Neosho Falls a year, then became principal of the Third Ward school in Emporia-—the Maynard.
[From] 1888 to 1890 Mr. Bishop [was] working [at] the Emporia Post Office. [He] went back to the post office in 1894, and stayed there until his retirement in 1929—after 37 years of service. He had worked under every postmaster Emporia had had, at that time since the town attained free delivery, in 1887. These postmasters were M. A. Birdsall, David Rowland, I.E. Lambert, J.M. McCown, Miss Mary P. Richter, W. F. Ewing, Robert M. Hamer, A.P. Myers, Harrison Parkman and Harry Osborn. Mr. Bishop worked on but two routes. The greater part of the time, his territory covered the west side of Commercial Street and Merchant and Constitution Streets from Sixth to Twelfth.
Mr. Bishop was married August 5, 1891 to Miss Mattie Branson, a Hartford school teacher, daughter of pioneers who came to Kansas in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop began housekeeping in a 3-room house on Sylvan Street-—it was their own and they have lived but one year of their married life in a rented house. They lived 17 years at 928 Commercial, and have lived in their present home 23 years.
Mr. Bishop was elected mayor of Emporia in 1929, by an almost unanimous vote, and served in that office three years. In addition to his work in the post office, he served the public many ways. He was a postmaster of the Masonic Lodge, a past patron of the Eastern Star, a past dictator of the Moose Lodge, a past president of the Security Benefit Association, past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and served as president of the civil service examining board.
Cary A. Bishop, 710 Merchant, former Emporia mayor and city mail carrier, died Thursday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock in the Newman Memorial County Hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 days. Mr. Bishop has been in failing health for some time.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Roberts-Blue Funeral home. Rev. Hugh B. Fouke, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will conduct the services. The body will be cremated.
Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, of the home; four sons, Charles A. Bishop, Los Angeles, Calif.; Harold B. Bishop, Kansas City, Mo.; Sgt. John Lynn Bishop, Spence Field Ga., and S2-c Ralph E. Bishop. Great lakes Naval Training Station; two daughters, Mrs. Kenyon Green, Twin Falls, Ia., and Mrs. Everett E. Davis, 115 S. Merchant; two brothers, James Marion Bishop, Route 1, Emporia, and William D Bishop, Cleveland, Ohio; five grand-daughters and one grandson, Jimmie Bishop, 619 West Sixth, Emporia. Mrs. Kenyon Green, Harold Bishop, and Sgt. John Lynn Bishop are in Emporia and are at the Bishop home, 710 Merchant. Seaman Ralph E. Bishop is expected to arrive in Emporia this evening.
Cary A. Bishop was born in Monmouth, Ill., February 23, 1862, and came to Kansas with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Peter Bishop, in 1866. May 1, 1866 the Bishops moved to the farm they had bought half a mile east of the Rinker school house, which ever since has been in the Bishop family, and now is the home of the James Marion Bishops. C. A. Bishop attended the Rinker School, and later attended the Normal School, walking back and forth from his hometown every day. He was graduated from the academic course in 1883.
Following this he taught two terms in the Kirkendall neighborhood, where the late Omer Kirkendall was one of his pupils, and one term at Bunker Hill. Next he took a year's post graduate course at the Normal, then a short course in the first Emporia business college, under its founder the Rev. O.W. Miller, a minister in the Christian Church. He taught his home school, was superintendent of schools at Atwood a year and at Neosho Falls a year, then became principal of the Third Ward school in Emporia-—the Maynard.
[From] 1888 to 1890 Mr. Bishop [was] working [at] the Emporia Post Office. [He] went back to the post office in 1894, and stayed there until his retirement in 1929—after 37 years of service. He had worked under every postmaster Emporia had had, at that time since the town attained free delivery, in 1887. These postmasters were M. A. Birdsall, David Rowland, I.E. Lambert, J.M. McCown, Miss Mary P. Richter, W. F. Ewing, Robert M. Hamer, A.P. Myers, Harrison Parkman and Harry Osborn. Mr. Bishop worked on but two routes. The greater part of the time, his territory covered the west side of Commercial Street and Merchant and Constitution Streets from Sixth to Twelfth.
Mr. Bishop was married August 5, 1891 to Miss Mattie Branson, a Hartford school teacher, daughter of pioneers who came to Kansas in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop began housekeeping in a 3-room house on Sylvan Street-—it was their own and they have lived but one year of their married life in a rented house. They lived 17 years at 928 Commercial, and have lived in their present home 23 years.
Mr. Bishop was elected mayor of Emporia in 1929, by an almost unanimous vote, and served in that office three years. In addition to his work in the post office, he served the public many ways. He was a postmaster of the Masonic Lodge, a past patron of the Eastern Star, a past dictator of the Moose Lodge, a past president of the Security Benefit Association, past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and served as president of the civil service examining board.
C. A. Bishop Is Dead
Cary A. Bishop, 710 Merchant, former Emporia mayor and city mail carrier, died Thursday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock in the Newman Memorial County Hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 days. Mr. Bishop has been in failing health for some time.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Roberts-Blue Funeral home. Rev. Hugh B. Fouke, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will conduct the services. The body will be cremated.
Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, of the home; four sons, Charles A. Bishop, Los Angeles, Calif.; Harold B. Bishop, Kansas City, Mo.; Sgt. John Lynn Bishop, Spence Field Ga., and S2-c Ralph E. Bishop. Great lakes Naval Training Station; two daughters, Mrs. Kenyon Green, Twin Falls, Ia., and Mrs. Everett E. Davis, 115 S. Merchant; two brothers, James Marion Bishop, Route 1, Emporia, and William D Bishop, Cleveland, Ohio; five grand-daughters and one grandson, Jimmie Bishop, 619 West Sixth, Emporia. Mrs. Kenyon Green, Harold Bishop, and Sgt. John Lynn Bishop are in Emporia and are at the Bishop home, 710 Merchant. Seaman Ralph E. Bishop is expected to arrive in Emporia this evening.
Cary A. Bishop was born in Monmouth, Ill., February 23, 1862, and came to Kansas with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Peter Bishop, in 1866. May 1, 1866 the Bishops moved to the farm they had bought half a mile east of the Rinker school house, which ever since has been in the Bishop family, and now is the home of the James Marion Bishops. C. A. Bishop attended the Rinker School, and later attended the Normal School, walking back and forth from his hometown every day. He was graduated from the academic course in 1883.
Following this he taught two terms in the Kirkendall neighborhood, where the late Omer Kirkendall was one of his pupils, and one term at Bunker Hill. Next he took a year's post graduate course at the Normal, then a short course in the first Emporia business college, under its founder the Rev. O.W. Miller, a minister in the Christian Church. He taught his home school, was superintendent of schools at Atwood a year and at Neosho Falls a year, then became principal of the Third Ward school in Emporia-—the Maynard.
[From] 1888 to 1890 Mr. Bishop [was] working [at] the Emporia Post Office. [He] went back to the post office in 1894, and stayed there until his retirement in 1929—after 37 years of service. He had worked under every postmaster Emporia had had, at that time since the town attained free delivery, in 1887. These postmasters were M. A. Birdsall, David Rowland, I.E. Lambert, J.M. McCown, Miss Mary P. Richter, W. F. Ewing, Robert M. Hamer, A.P. Myers, Harrison Parkman and Harry Osborn. Mr. Bishop worked on but two routes. The greater part of the time, his territory covered the west side of Commercial Street and Merchant and Constitution Streets from Sixth to Twelfth.
Mr. Bishop was married August 5, 1891 to Miss Mattie Branson, a Hartford school teacher, daughter of pioneers who came to Kansas in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop began housekeeping in a 3-room house on Sylvan Street-—it was their own and they have lived but one year of their married life in a rented house. They lived 17 years at 928 Commercial, and have lived in their present home 23 years.
Mr. Bishop was elected mayor of Emporia in 1929, by an almost unanimous vote, and served in that office three years. In addition to his work in the post office, he served the public many ways. He was a postmaster of the Masonic Lodge, a past patron of the Eastern Star, a past dictator of the Moose Lodge, a past president of the Security Benefit Association, past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and served as president of the civil service examining board.
Cary A. Bishop, 710 Merchant, former Emporia mayor and city mail carrier, died Thursday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock in the Newman Memorial County Hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 days. Mr. Bishop has been in failing health for some time.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Roberts-Blue Funeral home. Rev. Hugh B. Fouke, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will conduct the services. The body will be cremated.
Mr. Bishop is survived by his wife, of the home; four sons, Charles A. Bishop, Los Angeles, Calif.; Harold B. Bishop, Kansas City, Mo.; Sgt. John Lynn Bishop, Spence Field Ga., and S2-c Ralph E. Bishop. Great lakes Naval Training Station; two daughters, Mrs. Kenyon Green, Twin Falls, Ia., and Mrs. Everett E. Davis, 115 S. Merchant; two brothers, James Marion Bishop, Route 1, Emporia, and William D Bishop, Cleveland, Ohio; five grand-daughters and one grandson, Jimmie Bishop, 619 West Sixth, Emporia. Mrs. Kenyon Green, Harold Bishop, and Sgt. John Lynn Bishop are in Emporia and are at the Bishop home, 710 Merchant. Seaman Ralph E. Bishop is expected to arrive in Emporia this evening.
Cary A. Bishop was born in Monmouth, Ill., February 23, 1862, and came to Kansas with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Peter Bishop, in 1866. May 1, 1866 the Bishops moved to the farm they had bought half a mile east of the Rinker school house, which ever since has been in the Bishop family, and now is the home of the James Marion Bishops. C. A. Bishop attended the Rinker School, and later attended the Normal School, walking back and forth from his hometown every day. He was graduated from the academic course in 1883.
Following this he taught two terms in the Kirkendall neighborhood, where the late Omer Kirkendall was one of his pupils, and one term at Bunker Hill. Next he took a year's post graduate course at the Normal, then a short course in the first Emporia business college, under its founder the Rev. O.W. Miller, a minister in the Christian Church. He taught his home school, was superintendent of schools at Atwood a year and at Neosho Falls a year, then became principal of the Third Ward school in Emporia-—the Maynard.
[From] 1888 to 1890 Mr. Bishop [was] working [at] the Emporia Post Office. [He] went back to the post office in 1894, and stayed there until his retirement in 1929—after 37 years of service. He had worked under every postmaster Emporia had had, at that time since the town attained free delivery, in 1887. These postmasters were M. A. Birdsall, David Rowland, I.E. Lambert, J.M. McCown, Miss Mary P. Richter, W. F. Ewing, Robert M. Hamer, A.P. Myers, Harrison Parkman and Harry Osborn. Mr. Bishop worked on but two routes. The greater part of the time, his territory covered the west side of Commercial Street and Merchant and Constitution Streets from Sixth to Twelfth.
Mr. Bishop was married August 5, 1891 to Miss Mattie Branson, a Hartford school teacher, daughter of pioneers who came to Kansas in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop began housekeeping in a 3-room house on Sylvan Street-—it was their own and they have lived but one year of their married life in a rented house. They lived 17 years at 928 Commercial, and have lived in their present home 23 years.
Mr. Bishop was elected mayor of Emporia in 1929, by an almost unanimous vote, and served in that office three years. In addition to his work in the post office, he served the public many ways. He was a postmaster of the Masonic Lodge, a past patron of the Eastern Star, a past dictator of the Moose Lodge, a past president of the Security Benefit Association, past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and served as president of the civil service examining board.
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