"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
PAGE 217
JAMES M. BISHOP, a promising young lawyer of Mooresville, was born in
Hamilton County, Ind., May 31, 1850. His parents, JOSEPH and NANCY (CHEW)
BISHOP, were natives of Virginia, and of English descent. They had eight
children, our subject being the seventh, with two older brothers. He grew
up in Westfield, and finished his education at the Mooresville High School.
In May, 1873, he began the study of law with FORD & BLAIR in Shelbyville,
Ind., and in the year following was admitted to the bar in Indianapolis, and
from there came soon afterward to Mooresville. As a practitioner, he is
successful, and we bespeak for him a prominent place in the very front rank
of is profession at no distant day. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, an active Republican, a good debater, and a public speaker
of much more than average ability. He made his first political speech in
1876, and has since taken an effective part in all the election campaigns.
The declining years of his aged mother and father are made comfortable and
happy by the generosity and kind attention of an ever dutiful son.
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