This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1281 Message Board Post: The citation for the book is: Title: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley Publisher: Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 Contents: The Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys by N.H. Winchell; Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota by Edward D. Neill; Outlines of the History of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams; State Education by Charles A. Bryant Page: 414 Fair Haven Township G.W. Bishop was born in Ohio, on the 17th of July, 1840. His early life was spent on a farm and in a flouring mill, following the latter occupation through life. At the age of twenty-five years he went to Indianna, and after a stay of ten years, removed to Wisconsin, and thence, in 1877, to Kingston, Meeker county, Minnesota. In April, 1880, he came to Fair Haven, and in company with John S. Crocker, has since conducted a flouring mill at this point. Mr. Bishop was married in 1869, to Miss Ella J. Britton. Their children are, Alice L., Amy E., and Nancy A.