DANIEL BISHOP BIOGRAPHY, BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY

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Source: Biographical Review
Volume XIX
Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of CAMDEN AND BURLINGTON COUNTIES NEW JERSEY
Published by Biographical Review Publishing Company 1897

DANIEL W. BISHOP, a foreman in the brass foundry of the Florence Iron Works at Florence,
Burlington County, N.J., was born in Lumberton, February 22, 1852, son of Daniel J. and Ann
(Frazer) Bishop. Mr. Bishop's great-grandparents were early settlers of Burlington County; and
his grandfather, Job Bishop, was for many years engaged in farming in Lumberton. The latter
years, however, of the life of Job Bishop were passed as a schoolmaster, he attaining an
advancing age. He married Hannah Bishop; and they reared a family of six children, one of them
being a daughter, who became the wife of a Mr. Jefferson, for whom the city of Jefferson, Ia.,
was named.

Their son, Daniel J. Bishop, who was born in Lumberton, when a young man began to follow the
sea in the coasting trade. After continuing in that occupation for many years, he retired to
his home in Lumberton, where he still resides, having become an octogenarian some two years
since. He is a member of long standing in the Methodist Episcopal church in Lumberton, and for
several years was a Trustee of the church. His wife, Ann Frazer, of whose companionship and
counsel he was bereft nearly forty years ago, was the mother of six children, of whom two are
living, namely: William H., a merchant of Pemberton; and Daniel W., the subject of this sketch.

Daniel W. Bishop was five years old when his mother died. He was educated in the common
schools; and at the age of seventeen he went to Mount Holly, where he learned the trade of a
carpenter, serving an apprenticeship of three years. After completing his trade he returned
home, and later went to Hainesport, where he was employed as an iron moulder at the Columbia
Iron Works until 1890, when he was secured as one of the foremen in the brass foundry of the
Florence Iron Works. In this responsible position he has since continued.

In 1872 Mr. Bishop married Harriett Brown. She was born in Medford, N.J., daughter of John A.
Brown, who was during his active period engaged in cultivating a farm in this vicinity, but is
now living in Philadelphia. Mr. Brown and his wife reared a family of six children. Mr. and
Mrs. Bishop have had three children, two of whom are living, namely: Harry, who married Ella
Colkett; and John. Both sons are brass moulders, and are employed in the foundry with their
father.

In politics Mr. Bishop is a Prohibitionist; and while residing in Lumberton he served as
Constable and Overseer for five years, was Judge of Elections three years, and Justice of the
Peace for two years. He is a charter member of the lodge of United American Mechanics in
Florence, having filled all of the offices in that organization; and he is a member of the Aid
Society connected with the iron works. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are active members of the Baptist
church; and religious work in this locality has an earnest promoter in Mr. Bishop, who devotes
all of his spare time in its behalf. Aside from serving as a Deacon of his own church, he is a
licensed preacher, supplying various pulpits in the neighboring towns; and he also conducts a
mission church at the Cross Roads Railway Station, where he holds services each Sunday night.
He likewise takes a deep interest in the Reform Club, a temperance organization of which he is
President; and he is always ready to aid in all movements conducive to the moral and religious
improvement of the community. Mrs. Bishop is also actively interested in church work, and is
connected with various societies.