Bishop, Robert Hamilton – Bixby, James Thompson
Bishop, Robert Hamilton
clergyman, author, was born July 26, 1777, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Ohio, and president of Miami university, in 1824-41. He was the author of Sermons; Elements of Logic; Philosophy of the Bible; Science of Government; Western Peacemaker; and Memoirs of David Rice. He died April 29, 1855, in College Hill, Ohio.
Bishop, Rosewell P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1843, in Sidney, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in company C, forty-third New York volunteer infantry; and in 1862, he was wounded at Lees Mills, Va., necessitating the amputation of his right arm. He commenced practicing law at Ludington, Mich., and was elected prosecuting attorney of Mason county in 1876, 1878, and 1884. He was clected to the Michigan legislature in 1882 and 1892, and was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Bishop, Seth Scott
physician, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 7, 1852, in fessor of law in Yale college from 1847 to 1855. He died Sept. 15, 1857, in Norwalk, Conn.
Bissell, Edwin Cone
clergyman, author, was born in 1832, in New York.
He is a congregational clergyman of Chicago, and the author of Analysis of the Codes; The Historic Origin of the Bible; The Pentateuch: its Origin and Structure; Biblical Antiquities; Practical Introductory Hebrew Grammar; and Genesis Printed in Colours, showing original sources of compilation.
Bissell, George Henry
lawyer, was born Nov. 8, 1821, in Hanover, N. H.
He retained his connection with the oil industry for many years, built a railroad in the oil regions and established several banks there. He died Nov. 19, 1884, in New York city.
Bissell, Herbert Porter
lawyer, was born Aug. 30, 1856, in New London, N. Y. In 1886 he joined the partnership of Brundage, Weaver & Bissell; and in 1887 became a member of the firm of Bissell, Sicard, Brundage & Bissell, with which he is still connected. He is a trustee to several colleges; and the president and founder of the Cleveland democracy of Buffalo.
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.
Bishop, William Henry
educator, author, was born Jan. 7, 1847, in Hartford, Conn. He is a professor in Yale university, and the author of Fish and Men in the Maine Islands; A Househunter in Europe: Writing to Rosina: a novelette; A Pound of Cure: a Story of Monte Carlo; Detmold; The House of a Merchant Prince; The Golden Justice; Choy Susan and Other Stories; The Brown Stone Boy and Other Queer People; Old Mexico and her Lost Provinces, a volume of travel; and The Garden of Eden.
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, Clark
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1782 in Lebanon, Conn. He graduated at Yale college in 1806; studied law and settled at Norwalk. From 1829 to 1839 he was judge of the supreme court of the state; in 1847 and 1848 was governor of the state; and was Kent proof instructor of surgery at the New York Polyclinic in 1886, and in 1889 at the New York post graduate medical schools and hospitals. In 1895 he received the appointment of chief surgeon to the outdoor department of St. Vincent's hospital, with surgical work in the wards of the hospital.
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, Melville R
inventor, manufacturer, was born Sept. 25, 1843, in Hartwick, N. Y. He was the inventor of the Bissell carpet sweeper. In 1883 he organized a stock company for manufacturing his carpet sweeper, and the business increased until it became the largest of its kind in the world. He died March 15, 1.889, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bissell, Pelham St. George
capitalist, was born Dec. 5, 1858, in New York city. The Adirondacks Pulp .company was organized by him, afterward being merged in The International Pulp company.
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, William H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born April 25, 1811, in Hartwick, N. Y. In 1840 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature. In 1844 was elected a prosecuting attorney. He served with distinction in the Mexican war; was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1849 to 1855; and in 1856 was elected governor of Illinois for four years. He died March 18, 1860, in Springfield, Ill.
Bissell, William Henry Augus- Tus
bishop, was born Nov. 14, 1814, in Randolph, Vt. He was elected Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont, and consecrated in Christ's church, Montpelier, June 3, 1868.
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.
Bittenbender, Ada M. Cole
lawyer, reformer, was born Aug. 3, 1848, in Bradford county, Pa. In 1881-82 she was secretary and president of the Nebraska State Suffrage association; and from 1879- 82 was editor of the Record and Polk County Farmers' Alliance. During 1887- 92 she was superintendent of the legal department of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union; and since 1894 has been president of Uncle Sam's Anti- Drunkard Factory concern of Lincoln, Neb.
Bittenbender, Henry Clay
journalist, lawyer, reformer, was born June 19, 1851, in Afton, Pa. He received his education in the Bloomsbury normal college, Gettysburg college, and the Princeton college, N. J. He has attained prominence as a bright journalist and able lawyer of Lincoln, Neb. He has been secretary of the prohibition party of Nebraska; and is the secretary of Uncle Sam's Anti-Drunkard Factory concern, of which his wife is president.
Bitter, Karl Theodore Fran- Cis
sculptor, was born Dec. 6, 1867, in Austria. He has attained success as a sculptor. Among his works that have claimed the attention of the public is the sculpture on the administration building and manufactures and liberal arts building of the World's Columbian exposition of Chicago, Ill.
Bittinger, John Lawrence
journalist, statesman, was born Nov. 28, 1833, near Chambersburg, Pa. He received his education in the common schools of Ohio, and removed to Missouri in 1855. During 1861-65 he was postmaster of St. Joseph; was a member of the twenty-second, twenty-sixth, twentyseventh, and twenty-eighth, and thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth general assemblies of Missouri; and has always taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. He was a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1872 and 1896; and in 1897 was appointed consul-general at Montreal, Canada. He is also a successful journalist, and since 1860 has been the editor and owner of The Herald of St. Joseph, Mo.
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.