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Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope, the son of stonemason William Henry Hope and Avis Townes Hope. The family emigrated from England to Cleveland, Ohio in 1908, when Leslie, the fifth of seven children, was not yet five years old.
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Hope was the fifth of seven sons, born in Eltham, England, a London suburb, to stonemason William Henry Hope and aspiring concert singer Avis Townes Hope. Hope spent the first few years of his life in England before moving with his family to Cleveland in March 1908.
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May 29, 2003 · His livelihood crushed by a union lockout at United Stone and Steel, a British mason named William Henry Hope moves his family to Cleveland, Ohio, to seek a better life. The fifth of his...
Dec 2, 2020 · William Henry Hope, Bob’s father, was a stonemason who worked on the construction of the Guardians in the 1930s. During the 2016 Republican National Convention, three thousand people joined...
Aug 2, 2021 · The Guardians have been proudly overseeing the Hope Memorial Bridge since 1932 and have become iconic in the city of Cleveland. Each Guardian holds a different mode of transportation in its hands, including a hay rack, a covered wagon, a stage coach, a passenger automobile, and four types of motor trucks.
William Henry Hope died on Sunday, November 22, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 67. Visitation was at his residence, 3323 Yorkshire Rd., Cleveland Heights, where services were held Monday morning, November 23, at 10:30 a. m. Burial followed at Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
May 25, 2018 · Bob Hope’s father, William Henry Hope, a stone mason, had emigrated to the United States in 1907 to join his brothers Frank, a plumber, and Fred, a steamfitter, who were living in Cleveland, Ohio. He sent for his family the following year and they lived in Fred Hope’s plumbing shop at East 105th St. in the Cleveland neighborhood called Doan ...
