David H. Bishop
of Pee Pee Township, Pike County, Ohio
David H. Bishop, attorney at law and Mayor of Waverly, was born in Ross County, Ohio, April 19, 1824. His ancestors emigrated from Virginia in 1802, George Bishop, the father of Honorable R. M. Bishop. going to Kentucky; Henry settled north of Chillicothe, and David, Frederick and Robert, west of Chillicothe, in Ross County. Of Frederick's six children, Jacob was the second, and was but two years of age when his father removed from Virginia. When twenty-one, he married Margaret Shotts, a native of Maryland. He died in 1863, aged sixty-three years. His widow died in 1881, in her seventy-ninth year. Of their nine children, seven are still living, David H., subject of this sketch, being their second child. He was reared on a farm. His educational advantages were very meager, being confined to two or three months schooling in the winter. After he became of age he attended school at Augusta College, Kentucky, two years. He then returned to Ross County and taught in the country schools till 1858, when he came to Pike County and taught in the Waverly schools fifteen years, having charge of the Grammar department, and two years of the time being Superintendent of the schools of Piketon. While teaching school in 1868, he was elected Justice of the Peace, an office he has held to the present time. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar. In 1878 he was elected Mayor of Waverly, still holding the position. In 1849, Mr. Bishop was married to Eliza J. Taylor, of Brown County, Ohio. Of their five children, three daughters are still living. Two sons died in infancy. Mr. Bishop was reared a Methodist and has been a member of that church since 1844.
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - 1884
Published by the Scioto County Genealogy Society
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Pike Co. Genealogy & Historical Society
P. O. Box 224,
Waverly, Ohio 45690