Title |
Bishopbois, August |
Alternate title |
Bishaboy, August |
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Bishboy, August |
Date |
b. ca. 1814 |
Description |
August Bishopbois, a French printer and lithographer active in Philadelphia from about 1844 to the mid-1850s, relocated from
France to Boston in the 1830s, possibly working for William Pendleton, and his successor Thomas Moore. His first two children,
Virginia (b. ca. 1838) and Henry (b. ca. 1840) were born in Massachusetts, and his remaining children, Lavinia (b. ca. 1845),
Julia (b. 1850), and Rosina (b. ca. 1851) were born in Philadelphia. He resided with his Virginia-born wife Eliza (b. ca.
1820) and children on Cherry Street, above Thirteenth Street, until 1848. They moved to 69 South Fifth Street in the Dock
Ward, where Bishopbois is listed in city directories as a printer/lithographer until 1854 and his possible death. Six years
later, the 1860 census shows only his wife and two daughters (Virginia and Rosina) residing in the Fifth Ward.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Barnhill, With a French Accent, 31, n39 |
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Census 1850 and 1860 |
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Groce & Wallace, 53 |
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Karel, Dictionnaire des Artistes de Langue Francaise en Amerique de Nord, 4 |
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Peters, 88 |
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Philadelphia City Directories, 1844-1854 (intermittently) |
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WWWAA, 327 |