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Bishop, James L.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Leeds, Me., in 1797. He experienced religion in his youth, and in 1820 entered the New England Conference, in which he labored for some time with diligence and fidelity. His latter years were spent as a superannuate. He died in October, 1847. Mr. Bishop was a man of deep piety, and ardent in his attachment to the Bible. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1848, p. 260.