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William D. Bishop (3). 5. Henry Alfred,
of whom this review is made. 6. Nathaniel
W., born July 16, 1865 ; married, Octo-
ber 31, 1889, Anna Lucinda, daughter of
Dr. I. DeVer H. Warner of Bridgeport,
and has children, Warner, Alfred, and
Nathaniel W., Jr.
(V) Henry Alfred Bishop, son of William
D. and Julia Ann (Tomlinson)
Bishop, was born in Bridgeport, Decem-
ber 4, i860. He was educated in the Hill-
side School of Bridgeport, Hurlburt's
School at Lime Rock, Connecticut, and
General William H. Russell's Military
School at New Haven, Connecticut. He
matriculated at Yale University in the
class of 1884, but did not finish his course.
While at college he was elected a member
of the fraternities D K, Hay Boulay,
and Psi Upsilon. His career as a railroad
man began September 21, 1881, when he
was appointed general ticket agent of the
Naugatuck Railroad. In 1883 he was
made purchasing agent, and in 1885 as-
sistant superintendent, holding all these
offices until February, 1886. He next was
appointed superintendent of the Housatonic
Railroad and when that road had
leased the Danbury Railroad, he was
made general superintendent of the Hou-
satonic and all its subsidiaries or branches.
He was appointed purchasing agent of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
April I, 1887, and held that office
until his resignation, March i, 1902, to become
the acting vice-president of the
West Virginia Central and the Western
Maryland Railroad companies, which had
been acquired by a syndicate in which he
was interested. He was afterwards ele-
vated to the vice-presidency of both rail-
roads, but he relinquished his offices in
December, 1903, owing to his father's ill-
health. He has, however, since been ac-
tively connected with different railroad
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companies. He stands high in circles of
commanding influence in the city of
Bridgeport, which he served as a member
of the Board of Aldermen with his usual
marked ability. He was elected in 1886
to the State Legislature at Hartford. He
was president of the Board of Police Commissioners
of the city of Bridgeport from
1888 to 1890. He was a candidate for the
office of Secretary of State on the Demo-
cratic ticket in 1888, and in 1904 was a
candidate for lieutenant-governor. For
each of these offices he received a large
vote. He was president of the Bridgeport
Board of Trade in 1900-01. He is the
president and a director of the Bridgeport
Public Library and of the Bridgeport
Boys' Club. He is a director of the Texas
& Pacific Railway Company, Westchester
Street Railway Company, Brady Brass
Company, vice-president and a member of
the executive committee of the Consoli-
dated Telephone Company of Pennsylvania,
trustee of the People's Savings
Bank of Bridgeport, chairman of the
board of directors of the McNabb Company,
a director of the Bridgeport Gas
Company, director and member of executive
committee of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, director of the
American District Telegraph Company.
He was vice-president and a director of
the Connecticut National Bank of Bridge-
port, afterward consolidated with the
First National Bank, of which he is a
director. He is vice-president of the Her-
rick Combustion Company and the Pacific
Iron Works, vice-president and a director
of the Clapp Fire Resisting Paint Company
and a director of the Brooklawn
Company. He is a member of the Sinking
Fund Commission and of the City Finance
Committee of Bridgeport, a director of
the Mountain Grove Cemetery Associa-
tion and a trustee of the Bridgeport