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R P Bish
R. P. BISH, who owns and operates a farm near Kellersburg, in Madison
township, Armstrong county, was born in that township Oct. 9, 1868, son of
Joseph and Susanna (Porter) Bish.Joseph Bish was born in Clarion county, Pa., Aug. 26, 1843, and there grew
to manhood. During the Civil war he served in they Union army as a member of
Company A, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Eventually he settled on land in
Madison township, Armstrong, county, where he engaged in farming and mining,
and for four years he also carried mail on the Star route, between Rimer and
Deanville. He has been a lifelong Republican, and is a member of the G. A. R.
He resided on his twenty-acre farm in Madison township, one mile east of
Kellersburg, until his death, Oct. 22, 1913. Mrs. Bish is now aged sixty-seven
years. They were married in 1865. She is a daughter of James Porter, of
Brady’s Bend, who was a puddler in the iron mill there. Eleven children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bish, namely: R. P.; Elmira, wife of Robert
Campbell, of Natrona, Allegheny Co., Pa.; Silas, who married Carrie Kissinger
(he lives in Madison township and is employed in a brickyard) ; Elizabeth,
married to John Pence, living at Kellersburg; Mary, wife of Thomas Gething,
living at Tarentum, Allegheny county; Maggie, deceased, who was the wife of A.
0. McGee, of Kellersburg; E. E., who married Viola Anthony, and resides in
Madison township; Boyd, of Climax, Mahoning township, who married Margaret
Rhoads; Estella, who died when eighteen years old; and two who died in
infancy.R. P. Bish received his education at Deanville. After leaving school he was
engaged in railroad work for eight years, and then worked in a brickyard for
five years before taking up farming on his own account, at that time settling
on his present place. This is a tract of 106 acres, one mile south of
Kellersburg, in Madison township, and Mr. Bish purchased it from Joseph Myers.
During his ownership he has made many improvements on the property, including
the remodeling of the present dwelling there and the erection of the barn.
About twenty acres of this place is woodland and the balance is devoted to
general crops. Mr. Bish has opened a coal bank f or his own use, and he has
shown himself to be a progressive man in all his work, which he carries on in
a systematic and business-like manner. He is one of the substantial citizens
of his township, a member of the Madison township Grange, and in politics a
Progressive Republican. He has taken no part in public affairs.Mr. Bish married Arvilla Henry, who was born in East Franklin township,
this county, daughter of Sylvester and Elizabeth Henry, and they have had six
children, viz.: Edward, who was born in Clarion county; and Lloyd, Edith,
Flora, Owen and Robert, in Madison township.Source: Pages 760 – 761, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed February 1999 by Doris Rizza for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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