Geber Bishop ( English Heber Reginald Bishop ; 1840 - 1902 ) - American businessman, collector and philanthropist.
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 Portrait of Gerber Bishop from the jade | |
| Date of Birth | March 2, 1840 |
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| Date of death | December 10, 1902 (62 years) |
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| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | businessman , collector and philanthropist . |
He was a patron and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum in the period of its formation. His famous jade collection was donated to this museum.
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Biography
Born on March 2, 1840 in Medford, Massachusetts, in the family of Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (1789–1850) and his wife Mary Smith Farrar (1806–1881). Their ancestors emigrated from Ipswich , England , to the American colony of Massachusetts in 1685, settling in the city of Medford [1] .
After receiving a commercial education, at the age of 19, he traveled to Cuba in the city of Remedios to take up the sugar business. He created his own company, Bishop & Company , which he sold in 1873 and returned to the United States, where he first lived in his father-in-law's house in Irvington , New York, and later in his New York house on Fifth Avenue , 881. He was engaged in investments in banking structures, metallurgical, railway and mining companies. He was a member , director of the Chicago Railway Company , Rock Island and Pacific Railroad , and also headed the companies of the Chandler Iron Company , the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York and the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company .
Family
On October 20, 1862, he married Mary Cunningham (1842–1905) [2] - the daughter of Elizabeth Griffiths (1809–1869) and her husband, James Cunningham (1801–1870), who was a mechanical engineer and shipowner in Irvington.
They had eight children: Mary Cunningham Bishop (1864–1948), Elizabeth Templeton Bishop (1865–1934), Harriet Arnold Bishop (1866–1931), Heber Reginald Bishop, Jr. (1868–1923), James Cunningham Bishop (1870–1932), Francis Cunningham Bishop (1872–1927), Edith Bishop (1874–1959), and Ogden Mills Bishop (1878–1955).
He died on December 10, 1902 in New York. He was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery cemetery in Sleepy Hollow , New York, [3] in a family mausoleum (his wife and some children were buried there too).
Bishop’s property, valued at about $ 3,500,000, went to his wife, children, sister, and brother. Part of their funds, Geber Bishop left the Metropolitan Museum to store his collection [4] .
Collection
In 1902, Geber Bishop donated his collection of art products from China and Japan to the New York Metropolitan Museum , as well as part of the exhibits from Mexico, Central America, Switzerland, France, Italy, New Zealand and other countries. Among her were artifacts from the jade and jade . In addition, he donated a large collection of Alaskan antiquities to the American Museum of Natural History in 1879.
With the assistance of the traveler, Major John Powell , Bishop assembled a large collection of ethnological artifacts of British Columbia , including the famous Hyde Indoor Canoe , which is 64 feet long, 8 feet wide, and completely carved from the trunk of a single tree taken from the Heiltsuk tribe.
Interestingly, when Brayton Ives , an entrepreneur and financier of New York , stopped collecting his collection of rare historical swords, they were put up for sale; thanks to the efforts of Geber Bishop, as well as another businessman and collector - William Walters and the American Art Association ( English American Art Association ), a valuable collection of swords was bought for $ 15,000 and donated to the Metropolitan Museum.
Notes
- ↑ Cutter, William Richard. The New England Families, The Genealogical and the Memorial of the Commonwealths and the Founding of [ eng ] . - Lewis historical publishing Company, 1913. - P. 758.
- ↑ Mary Cunningham Bishop (eng.)
- ↑ Heber Reginald Bishop (English)
- ↑ WILL OF HEBER R. BISHOP; Provision for Preservation of Famous Jade Collection. Now in Metropolitan, Museum -; Estate of $ 3,500,000 Goes to Family of Testator. , The New York Times (18 December 1902). (eng.)