ALBERT BISHOP

BISHOP

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 12:21:14

ALBERT BISHOP is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, born November 12, 1847, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Bishop, natives of Canada. His parents were among the early settlers of Milwaukee. The mother died in 1868 and the father, in 1890, the latter at the age of seventy-eight years. Albert was reared in town, received a common school education, and during his youth was variously employed. He learned the trade of a painter, which he followed for some time at Appleton, Wisconsin.

During the late war Mr. Bishop enlisted in April, 1865, in the Fifty- third Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, Company K, and did his part in helping to put down the rebellion. He was with his regiment stationed most of the time on the Iron Mountain railroad in Missouri and Arkansas. In August, 1865, he was honorably discharged, after which he returned to Wisconsin.

In 1878 Mr. Bishop moved to Ogle county, Illinois, and subsequently to Winnebago county, same state. In 1880 he settled on his present farm in section 23, Carl township, Adams county, Iowa. This farm, 120 acres, he had purchased in 1875 when it was wild land. It is now improved with good buildings, orchard, etc., and on it he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.

Mr. Bishop was married, October 5, 1880, to Miss Alverda Jane Mily, a native of Whiteside county, Illinois, and a daughter of Jesse and Jane Mily. Her father was born in Ohio, is forty-nine years old, and was a soldier in the late war. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have two children, Mary Alice and Frank Elmer. Mr. Bishop is in politics a Republican, as was also his father.