HENRY BISHOP
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Was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1824, and emigrated to America in 1829, and located in Mason county, which has since been his home. In 1848 he was married to Miss Catharine Wesling, a member of one of the substantial families of Mason county. They have had a large family, and nine children are now living. An aged mother, now past her four score years, makes her home with Mr. Bishop. The father died the first year after his arrival in Mason county. Mr. Bishop is the proprietor of the town known as Bishop's Station, on the P., P. & J. Railroad, northeast of Havana, laid out in the spring of 1875. A post-office was established there in 1871. He is engaged in farming, and has the peculiar faculty of being successful in all his undertakings. His good judgment and fine business abilities have secured him a competency of this world's goods, and he and his amiable and intelligent wife are living with more happy contentment in their surroundings than is usually the lot of man to enjoy.

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