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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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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...
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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.
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 ...
William Henry Hope, Bob's father, was a stonemason who worked on the construction of the Guardians in the 1930s. Images. Masons and Pylon Masons who worked on the "Guardians of Transportation" pose in front of one of their creations as it is being installed. Source: Image courtesy of Cleveland State Library Special Collections Date: ca. 1932.
His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason, while his Welsh mother, Avis Townes Hope, an aspiring concert singer. In 1907, Leslie’s father brought the family to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920, by virtue of his father’s naturalization, ‘Bob’ — the name by which the world would later know him — and his brothers became United States citizens.
Jul 25, 2021 · The Guardians, in large part, were carved by Italian immigrant stone masons who lived in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood. The mammoth Guardians of Traffic, sculpted with an Art Deco flair on four Berea sandstone pylons, have been overseeing the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, otherwise known as the Hope Memorial Bridge, since 1932.
