Biographical Sketch of Dr. Galen E. Bishop, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Dr. Galen E. Bishop.  Among the distinguished physicians of Buchanan
County, Dr. Bishop stands prominent.  He has been engaged in the 
active pursuit of his profession for nineteen years in Platte County,
and for fifteen years in St. Joseph, Missouri.  His birth occurred in
Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky.  His ancestors were of English 
descent, and, in colonial times, were residents of New Hampshire.  
Members of the Bishop family fought in the Revolutionary War, and in
1783 settled in Virginia.  Galen's father, who was born in Virginia,
removed from Kentucky to Missouri in 1843, settling in Platte County,
where he died in 1851.  While comparatively young, Dr. Bishop had re-
solved on medicine as his profession.  As soon as an opportunity
offered, he began his medical studies, pursued them with diligence,
and first established himself in practice at New Market, Platte County,
Missouri, in the spring of 1846.  He followed his chosen calling in 
that county for nineteen years, when, on account of threatened lung
disease, induced by exposure incident to a rough country practice,
and also with a view of securing a more central location, he deter-
mined to move to St. Joseph.  Accordingly, he located in this city in
the spring of 1865, and established himself in an office and general
practice, making his specialties surgery and chronic diseases.  To
accommodate his increasing practice, he built his infirmary on Third
Street, which is beautiful in architectural design.  He has one of
the finest libraries in the western country, and on his long rows of
shelves, ancient and modern authors stand side by side, and there can
be found the best works of the leading writers of all schools.  Dr.
Bishop was originally an allopathic physician, but has thoroughly
acquainted himself with the principles of the different leading
schools and systems.  Naturally liberal in his tendencies, his prac-
tice is not hampered by the restrictive dogmas of any particular
system.  But he believes that some good and some foundation of truth
exists in all systems, of which every physician should avail himself
in his practice.

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