Bishop, Levi
lawyer, author, poet, was born Oct. 15, 1815, in Russell, Mass.
He was elected justice of the peace in 1842, and from 1846 till 1858 was president of the Detroit board of education. The largest school building in Detroit now bears his name, and he was a regent of the state university from 1857 till 1863.
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 lectured occasionally on literary topics, and published The Dignity of Labor, a poem; and Teuchsa Grondie, a poem in twenty-eight cantos, devoted to the Indian lore of Detroit river in 1870. He died Dec. 23, 1881, in Detroit, Mich.