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that city; and judge of the county court of Dodge county, Ga. He has been school commissioner of Dodge county, Ga.; and has

been postmaster of Inglewood, Ga. He is now president of the merchant's and Parmer's bank of Eastman, Ga. Bishop, Herbert Martin, physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 15, 1844, in New London, Conn. He was educated at Bartlett high school for young men and graduated from Yale medical college. During the civil war he was surgeon to regiment first the Connecticut cavalry. He has been health of;

ficer

of

Norwich

city.

Conn. and president the Connecticut of homoeopathic medical

society. He now practices his profession in Los Angeles, Cal. ; and has been president of the California state homoeopathic medical society. He has contributed medical articles to

current journn Is. Bishop, James,

merchant, congressman, Brunswick, N.J. He was bred a merchant; and served, in the legislature of his native state. In 1855-57 he was a representative from New Jersey to the

was born

in

thirty-fourth

New

congress.

He

died

in

New

cal

Bishop, John Remsen, educator, author, was born Sept. 17, 1860, in New Brunswick, N.J. Since 1904 he has been principal at the Eastern high school of Detroit, Mich. He is the author of Virgil's Georgius Edited for Sight Reading; and is now editing Cicero's Orations. Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, author, was born Sept. 5, 1847, in East Providence, E.I. He is the author of Cheap Money Experiments; Our Political Drama; Issues of a New Epoch

and Memorial Address on John Hay. Bishop, Judson Wade, soldier, civil engineer, capitalist, was born June 34, 1831, in Evansville, N.Y. In 1853 he became assistant engineer of the Grand trunk railway; was later an engineer in Minnesota; then became surveyor at Chatfield, Minn.; and in 1859.

Chatfield Demserved as captain of the second Minnesota regiment to brevet brigadier-general of volunteers. After the civil war he built and operated railroads in Minnesota; and is now president of the St. Paul trust company of Minnesota.

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was the publisher of the

He

ocrat.

Bishop,

Bishop, Joel Prentiss, lawyer, jurist, auth-

was born in 1814 in Volney, N.Y. He was an eminent jurist of Boston. He was the author of Commentaries on Criminal Law; Marriage and Divorce; The Law of Married Women; Thoughts for the Times; First Book of Law; Directions and Forms; Criminal Procedure; Statutory Crimes; Prosecution and Defense and the Written Laws. He died Nov. 4, 1901, in Cambridge, Mass. Bishop, John Asa, banker, founder, was born June 11, 1856, in Newbern, N.C. He beor,



gan

his business career as a real estate dealestablished and became president of the State bank of St. Petersburg, Fla.

He

Bishop, John Soast, soldier, author,

was

born March 23, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. Early in life he learned the bookbinder's trade; and subsequently was a, bookkeeper and salesman. In 1861 he became major in the thirty- second regiment Illinois volunteers;

was made

Levi,

lawyer,

author,

lecturer,

was born Oct. 15, 1815, in Russell, Mass. He was elected justice of the peace in 1842; and in 1846-58 was president of the Detroit board of education. The largest poet,

school

Brunswick, N.J.

er.

He is the author of ChronologiHistory of the War.

of congress.

building in Detroit

now

bears his

name; and he was a regent of the state university in 1857-63. He was much interested in the early history of the west; organized the Detroit Pioneer society in 1871 ; and was its president till his death. He was the author of The Dignity of Labor, a poem; and Teuchsa Grondie, a poem in twentyeight cantos, devoted to the Indian lore of Detroit river in 1870. He died Dec. 33, 1881, in Detroit, Mich. Bishop, Louis Faugeres, physician, author, was born March 14, 1864, in Brunswick, N.J. In 1885 he graduated from Rutgers college; and in 1889 from the college of physicians and surgeons of New York City. He was clinical professor of heart and circulatory diseases at Fordham university school of medicine of New York

City and

now makes a

specialty of diseases of the heart arid arteries in New York City.

lieu-

tenant-colonel in 1864; and colonel in 1865. In 1867 he became second lieutenant in the

He is the author of Heart Disease and Blood Pressure; and sev-

thirtieth regiment United States infantry; was promoted to first

thor,

lieutenant in 1873; and was made captain in 1887. In 1898 he was retired from active service; and in 1904 became major by act

eral other works.

Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes, litterateur, auin 1837 in Massachusetts. He Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America; The Voyage of the Paper Canoe; and Four Months in a Sneak is

was born

the author of

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