Bishop, James bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 943, Woodland Township
James Bishop, farmer, sec. 32; P. O., Astoria; was born in 1853 in Indiana; his father, John Bishop, was born in Indiana, where he married Miss Susan Pennington, by whom he had 14 children. Jas., the 3d child, grew up in Iowa and Kansas, where his parents had moved; in 1872 Mr. B. became a resident of this Co.; in 1874 he married Miss Jane Bryant, a daughter of W. F. Bryant, by whom he has two children, - Wm. F. and Mary A. Owns 40 acres of land.