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Bissell, J. B
jurist. He is a judge of the court of appeals of Colorado.
Bissell, Joseph Bidleman
phy- 'sician, was born Sept. 3, 1859, in Lake- Fond du Lac, Wis. He has been profes-ville, Conn. He received the appointment sor of Chicago post graduate medical school and hospital; professor in the Illinois medical college; surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear infirmary; and consulting surgeon to the Silver Cross hospital of Joliet. He has invented numerous surgical instruments and apparatus, in general use by the medical profession.
Bishop, William D
lawyer, railroad president, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1827, in Bloomfield, N. J. He graduated at Yale college in 1849; studied law as a profession, but soon engaged almost exclusively in railroad business, being for several years president of the Naugatuck railroad company; and was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from Connecticut. In 1859, was appointed commissioner of patents. In 1866 he was again elected to the state legislature.
Bispham, Henry Collins
artist, was born in 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 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 Tigris, and Landscape and Cattle. He excels in pastoral cattlescenes 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, John William
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 4, 1843, in Canada. He received his education at the Northwestern university and graduated in 1867. He became professor of Latin and Greek in the Northern Indiana collège in 1868; was principal of Brookston academy in 1869; and since 1873 has been president of the Upper Iowa university of Fayette.
Bissell, Josiah Wolcott
engineer, was born May 12, 1818, in Rochester, N. Y. He was engaged before the civil war in banking, and in architectural and engineering work. During the war he was colonel of an engineer regiment attached to Gen. Pope's army, and superintended the construction of the canal that enabled the national gun-boats to approach the confederate works on Island No. 10 in Mississippi river.
Bissell, Simon B
naval officer, was born Oct. 28, 1808, in Vermont. He was attached to the sloop Albany, during the war with Mexico; and was present at the siege of Vera Cruz. He served with distinction through the civil war and was promoted to commodore. He died Feb. 18, 1883, in Paris, France.
Bissell, Wilson Shannon
postmaster general, was born Dec. 31, 1847, in New London, N. Y. He is a leading lawyer of the state of New York at Buffalo; and a director in several railroad companies.
Bixby, James Thompson
clergyman, author, was born July 30, 1843, in Barre, Mass. He has filled important pastorates in the unitarian church in Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania, and New York; and during 1879-83 was professor of religious philosophy in the Meadville theological school. He is the author of Religion and Science as Allies; and The Crisis in Morals.
Bixby, John Munson
lawyer, author, was born in February, 1800, in Fairfield, Conn. He was a lawyer of New York city, whose two novels were issued under a pseudonym. He was the author of Standish the Puritan; and Overing, or the Heir of Wycherly. He died Nov. 22, 1876, in New York.
Bixby, Samuel M
manufacturer, was born May 27, 1833, in Haverhill, N.
H. He has made his name famous as manufacturer of shoe blacking; his business grew to gigantic proportions and now occupies the whole of an imposing structure; and extends to every quarter of the habitable globe.