Biographical Sketch of James Wilson Bishop, Greene County, Missouri, 
Brookline Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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James Wilson Bishop, M. D., is the fourth son of David F. and Eunice
(Wilson) Bishop, and was born at Derby Centre, Orleans County, Vermont,
May 27th, 1828.  He leaned toward the medical profession, when quite a
child interesting himself in the anatomy of all animals killed upon the
farm.  He received his education at Oberlin, Ohio, and began the study
of medicine under Dr. Baxter of that place, where he took one course of
lectures.  He practiced one year, and then entered Ann Arbor medical
school, graduating in the class of 1854.  He then resumed practice at
Tower Hill, Shelby County, Illinois, where he lived six years, and then
removed to Story County, Iowa, remaining there in active practice for
thirteen years.  He then took two courses of lectures at the Keokuk
Medical college, where he graduated in medicine, surgery and therapu-
tics.  He returned to Story County, Iowa and resumed practice, but at
the end of eight months he came to Greene County, Missouri, and located
for the practice of his professsion at Republic, making a specialty of
obstetrics and diseases of women.  He was married in Williams County,
Ohio, February 22, 1850, to Miss Mary Meade.  Their union has been
blest with three children, two boys and one girl.  The doctor is a 
Mason in good standing and a most agreeable gentleman.

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