BISBEE.
BISHOP.
havint: bt>en iletaileil by the war department to
orv'Hiiize ooldreti triX)|)s. he enlisted, equipi^ed.
drilled and sent to the field seven regiments, in
doing which he o[)ened three slave prisons in
Baltimore and freed a large number of slaves
belonging to Confederate offirers. His numerous
enlistments left few able-lxxiieil slaves in Mary-
land, and linstene«l the alxilition of slavery in
that .'^tate. After the defeat of the Union troops
at C)lustei\ Fla., l^ing place<l in command of
that district, he made a secret and rapid move-
ment by Black Creek to the rear of the Confed-
eral*? stronghold at the Biildwin railroad crossings,
forced the troops holding it to retire by night
into Georgia, and took the works with military
stores and arms. He took jiart in numerous
skirmishes and in the principal battles in Vir-
ginia, including the tirst and second Bull Run,
Petersburg. Fretiericksburg. Chantilly and Chan-
cellorsville. In the army he was known as a
skilful tactician, a vigilant and trustworthy
officer, and a disciplinarian, eflFecting the best
results by strictness without severity. In 1853 he
founded and for two years edited the Register,
a daily paper at Philadelphia, and led the suc-
cessful movement for the consolidation of the
numerous separate " liberties " of tliat city into
one municipal government. He appeared about
tliat time on the lecture platform in the best
courses in several of the large cities. He was for
about four years attorney for the District of
Columbia, Washington, D. C. His numerous
anonymous contributions to the press include the
fortnightly letters from Washington, signed
" Elscott Holt.'" published for several years in the
New York Examiner. He was a collaborator in
" Waite's History of the Church, for the First
Two Centuries of the Christian Era." In January,
1890. he published "James G. Birney's Life and
Times, the G«ne.sis of the Republican Party,"
a politico-biographical work.
BISBEE, Marvin Davis, educator, was born at ClK^'iter. Vt.. June 21, 1845. He received an academic e<lu(ation. and in 1871 was graduated from Dartmouth college, later studying theology at the Andover theological seminary. From 1874 to 1881 he preached, first in the Congregational church at Pennacook, N. H., and then in the Chapel church at Cambridgeport. Mass. He be- came erlitor of the Congregatioualist in 1881, and remaine<l in that position for five years, resigning to accept the chair of bibliography at Dartmouth college. He made frefjuent contributions of prose and verse to reviews, magazines, and newspapers. He edited a volume of verse entitled "Songs of the Pilgrims"; and also a "Bibliography of Dartmouth College and Hanovpf" rWU ).
BISCOE, Ellen B., (See HoUia, Ellen L.)
BISHOP, Anne (Madame Anna Bishop),
vocalist, was born in London, June 12, 1814. Her
father, a drawing-master named Riviere, gave
her a good musical education, and in 1824 she was
elected a student at the Royal academy of music,
where she remained until, in 1831, she became
the second wife of Henry Rowley Bishop, the
celebrated English comix).ser, after which she sang
at the Philharmonic concerts, at Vauxhall, at
oratorios, and at country festivals. In 1839 she
left her husband and her three little children,
eloping with Bochsa, a harpist, who liad been the
leader of an orchestra in London. By his advice
she devoted herself to Italian music, and with
him she visited the principal towns in Europe,
and sang at more than two hundred and fifty
concerts, taking St. Petersburg, Novgorod and
Odessa on her route. From 1843 to 1846 she sang
in Italy with great success. Madame Bisliop next
visited America, where she was at first coldly re-
ceived on account of her connection with Bochsa,
but her genius won her recognition and she
became a great favorite with the music-loving
public. Her next trip took her to Australia,
where Bochsa died in 1855. Her husband. Sir
Henry Bishop, who was knighted by the queen in
1842, the first musician so honored, also died in
April of the same year. In 1856 she married
a New York merchant, Martin Schultz, ^^■ith
whom she visited Lima, Chili, and Peru, crossing
the Andes and meeting with numerous adven-
tures. In 1866 she was shipwrecked while on her
way from Honolulu to China, and after many
hardships was rescued by a ship bound for
Manilla, where she sang, as she did later in China.
Owing to the loss of her voice, in 1868, she retired
into private life. Expatriated by her irretrievable
misstep, she visited nearly all parts of the
world and died in New York city, March 18,
1884.
BISHOP, Joseph Bucklin, journalist, was born on a farm in Seekonk, Mass. (afterwards East Providence. R. I.), Sept. 5, 1847. He was graduated from Brown university in 1870, paying his expenses through college by teaching school and reporting for Providence newspapers. He entered the office of the New York Tribune as & reporter in the fall of 1870, and in .six months was promoted to the editorial staff, of which he continued a member for thirteen years, resigning in Augu-st. 1883, to accept a position as editorial writer on the New York Evening Post. He was made American correspondent of the London Daily Xeics in 1881. and contributed to the Cen- tury, Scrihner's. Forum, and other magazines on topics relating to political science, including bal- lot reform, and corrupt practice legislation. He is the author of "Money in City Elections" (1887), and " Cheap Money " (1892).
