Samuel Addison Bishop

Samuel Addison Bishop (1825 – 1893) was a settler of the Owens Valley and is the namesake of Bishop Creek in Inyo County, California.[1] He fought as a first sergeant in the Mariposa Battalion and later was a banker and a founder of the San Jose streetcar system.[2]

  1. ^ Browning, Peter (2005). Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park. Great West Books. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-94422-019-1.
  2. ^ Chalfant, Willie Arthur (1922). The Story of Inyo. Chalfant. pp. 90–92.