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and afterward became a bishop. He died July 3, 1873, in Newark, N.J. Bishop, William Henry, educator, author, was born Jan. 7, 1847, in Hartford, Conn. He is a professor in Yale university; and a frequent contributor to periodical literaHe is the author of Fish and Men in the Maine Islands; A Househunter in Europe; WritinfJ' to Rosina, a novelette; A Pound of Cure, a story of Monte Carlo; ture.

Detmold; The House of a Merchant Prince;The Golden Justice; Choy Susan and Other Stories; The tirown Stone Boy and Other Queer People; and Old Mexico and her Lost

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Provinces. Bishop, William Henry, educator, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 14, 1860, in Murrayville, W.Va. Since 1890 he has practiced law in Spencer, W.Va.; for three terms served as mayor of that city; and drafted and published his town's code of ordinances. In 1904 he was elected prosecuting attorney on the republican ticket. He is the author of Bishop's Municipal

Code Cases and Forms.

Bishop, William Thomas, soldier, banker, physician, surgeon, author, was born Nov. 11, 1840, in Hummelstown, Pa. He graduated from the high school of Harrisburg, Pa.; and graduated from the Rush medical college of Chicago, 111. During the civil war in 1863-63 he served as a private, orderly, sergeant and as second lieutenant in Pennsylvania regiments. During the next ten years he was engaged principally in the banking business. Since 1879 he has practiced medicine in Harrisburg, Pa.; and since 18»6 has been medical examiner for the Pennsylvania railroad company. He has been surgeon of his post grand army of the republic; and is a prominent mason. In 1886 he was president of the Harrisburg pathological society; in 1888 was president of the Dauphin county medical society; and in 1897 was president of the American elctro-therapeutio association.

Bispham, David S., singer, composer, was born Jan. 5, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a noted concert singer and dramatic bari-

sor of law in Yale college in 1847-55. He died Sept. 15, 1857, in Norwalk-, Conn. Bissell, Daniel, soldier, was born in Connecticut. He became a lieutenant in 1808; and a brigadier-general in 1814. He died Dec. 14, 1833, in St. Louis, Mo. Bissell, Edwin Cone, clergyman, author, was born March 3, 1833, in Schoharie, N.Y.

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filled pastorates in the congregationchurch; and since 1881 has been profes-

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in Hartford theological sem-

the author of Analysis of the Codes; The Historic Origin of the Bible; The Pentateuch: its Origin and Structure; Biblical Antiquities; and Practical Introductory Hebrew Grammar. Bissell, Evelyn L., physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 10, 1836, in Litchfield, Conn. He was assigned to surgical duty in the civil war; and at its close was on duty in Atlanta, Ga. For seven years he was examining surgeon for the pension department of the United States government. He subsequently established himself as practicing physician and surgeon in New Haven, Conn. He died about 1908 in New Haven, Conn. is

George

Edwin,

sculptor, artist, 1839, in New Prfston, Conn. In 1863 he served as a private soldier in the civil war. He is the sculptor of the soldiers' and sailors' monument and statue of Colonel Chatfield at Waterbury, Conn.; the statue of Abraham Lincoln at Edinburgh, Scotland; statue of President Arthur and Bissell,

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others.

George Welton, educator, scientist, July, 14, 1866, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Since 1893 he has been a professor of mechanical engineering. He is a fellow of the American association for the advanceBissell,

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of science. Bissell, J. B., jurist.

He was a judge of the court of appeals of Colorado. Bissell, John William, educator, clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 4, 1843, in Prescott, Canada. He was prepared for college at the Rock

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Bispham, George Tucker, lawyer, author, was born May 34, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1861-1906 he practiced law in Philadelphia, Pa. tie was the author of Principles of

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1867 he graduated from the Northwestern university, from which institution he

He died in 1906 in Philadelpma, Pa. Bispham, Henry Collins, painter, artist, was born in 1841 in Philadelphia, Pa. In

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1869 he sent to the national academy On the Campagna; To the Front; and Noonday Rest. In 1875 he exhibited A Misty Day; and in 1878 Landscape and Cattle. He excels in pastoral cattle -scenes and in wild landscapes with animals. Among his other paintings are Dead in the Desert; Roman Bull; The Wine-Cart; The Raid; Hunted Down; Crouching Lion; and The Stampede. Bissell, Clark, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in ] 783 in Lebanon, Conn. In 183939 he was judge of the supreme court of Connecticut; in 1847 was the sixteenth governor of Connecticut; and was Kent profes-

seminary Morris,

received, ihe degree of A.M. in 1870; received

the

degree

of

D.D.

from the Iowa Wesleyan university; and the

degree

of

LL.D.

from the Upper Iowa university. He has been professor of Greek and latin in the Northern Indiana college. In 1873-73 he was professor in the Upper Iowa university; was acting president in 3 873-74; and president of that institution in 1874-99.

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has traveled in England, Europe, land. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church in Charles City and Waterloo, Iowa; and since

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