Posted on: Carroll County Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Md/CarrollBios/10003 Surname: Bish, Bixler, Lippy, Reinhart, Frock, Myers ------------------------- NOAH TYLER BISH A self-educated and self-made man, his force of character, unaltering perseverance and laudable ambition have brought Noah Tyler Bish to a creditable position among the successful merchants of Dayton, where he is now conducting a grocery business as a senior partner of the firm of N. T. Bish & Son. He was born near Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, September 20, 1843, and represents one of the old families of that state founded in America by his great-grandfather, who was born in Germany and with two brothers came to the new world, settling in Baltimore. The grandfather, Adam Bish, was born in Maryland in the eighteenth century and died in 1854. William Bish, the father of our subject, was a native of Carroll County, Maryland, and died upon a farm there in 1875, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife passed away in the same year. Their children besides our subject were Ephraim S. and Alfred W., both deceased; Anna M., deceased wife of Jonas Warner; Henry J. and David, both deceased; Joel B. and Reuben G., residents of Carroll County, Maryland; Mary J., deceased; Ezra M. and Silas M., also living in Carroll County, Maryland; and Catherine, who died at the age of two years. Noah Tyler Bish spent his youthful days in the county of his nativity, where he remained until he attained his majority, pursuing his education between the ages of nine and seventeen years. His opportunities, however, were quite limited, his longest term being twenty-eight days. He has been, however, an apt student in the school of experience, learning from each new condition and interest of life the lesson which it contained. On leaving home he removed to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he was employed on a farm for three seasons. Mr. Bish completed his arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage, November 11, 1869, to Miss Sarah C. Clemmer, a daughter of George L. Clemmer, who died in Dayton, January 20, 1902. Her mother passed away in the same city on the 8th of October, 1887. At an early date her grandfather, Andrew Clemmer, came to this state from Rockingham County, Virginia, in company with his two brothers, John and David, and entered land in Montgomery County under the homestead law. Mrs. Bish is one of a family of five children, the others being David, a resident of Johnsville, Ohio; Elizabeth, deceased wife of Josiah Hull; Lewis D., of Dayton; and John W., who died at the age of seven years. The year following his marriage Mr. Bish purchased forty acres of land in Perry Township, there carrying on general farming from 1870 until 1884, during which time he brought his fields under a high state of cultivation, while the rich crops which he gathered enabled him to continuously add to his capital. He then came to Dayton and invested in a stock of groceries, opening his store on the same site where he now carries on business. From the beginning he has prospered in his commercial pursuits and now has a large and well appointed store and a liberal patronage is accorded him. His trade is of a most gratifying character and the reliability of his methods is indicated by the fact that many of his patrons have been with him for years. Admitting his son to a partnership, the business is now continued under the firm style of N. T. Bish & Son. Unto Mr. And Mrs. Bish have been born three children: George William, his father's partner; Susan Addie, who died in 1889 at the age of sixteen years; and Ray Clemmer, born in 1890. The parents hold membership in the Grace Reformed Church and their influence is always on the side of justice, truth and progress. Mr. Bish votes with the democracy but has never sought the rewards of office for the party fealty. His life has been quietly passed in devotion to the duties that have devolved upon him through his business relations, and the secret of his success lies in his trustworthiness, industry and commercial integrity. From: Drury, A. W.; A History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio, Volume 2. S. J. Clarke Company, Chicago, 1909. Pages 372-373.