Mingo County, West Virginia         Biography of GEORGE W. BISHOP

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 581
Mingo

GEORGE W. BISHOP, general manager of the Williamson
Supply Company, one of the leading business concerns in the
City of Williamson, Mingo County, was born at Powell,
Delaware County, Ohio, March 30, 1888, and is a son of
James and Julia (Britton) Bishop, both likewise natives
of the Buckeye State and both of English ancestry, the
original American representative of the Bishop family hav-
ing come from England and settled in Virginia. James
Bishop has been one of the representative farmers of
Delaware County, Ohio, and is a substantial citizen who
has always taken loyal interest in community affairs, he
having served as a member of the school board and having
held other positions of local trust.

In the public schools of his native county George W.
Bishop continued his studies until he had profited by the
advantages of the Powell High School, and thereafter he
was for three years a student in Bliss College at Columbus,
Ohio, where he took both academic and business courses. He
then, at the age of eighteen years, found employment in the
transportation department of the Norfolk & Western Rail-
road, in its terminal offices at Columbus, Ohio, where he
remained six months. He was then transferred to Bluefleld,
West Virginia, where for six months he was chief clerk in
the office of the trainmaster. He then, in 1906, accepted
a position with the Superior Supply Company at Bluefleld,
with which concern he remained eight years and with which
he eventually won advancement to the position of assistant
general manager. In 1921, at the organization of the Wil-
liamson Supply Company, Mr. Bishop became treasurer and
general manager of the new corporation, and his long
experience in this line of enterprise, combined with his ex-
ceptional initiative and executive ability, is proving potent
in the developing of the substantial and important business
for the company. He is president of the local organization
of the National Association of Credit Men, is vice president
of the Chamber of Commerce, is one of the progressive and
valued members of the Kiwanis Club at Williamson, and
he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian
Church.

At Bristol, Tennessee, in 1907, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Bishop and Miss Hazel Shumate, a daugh-
ter of John and Nancy Margaret (Roberts) Shumate, the
former a native of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky.
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have one son, George W., Jr.