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JAMES BISHOP, farmer, P. O. Heyworth; was born in Champaign Co., Ohio, Nov. 12, 1821, and lived there nineteen years; he then went to Calloway Co., Mo., near Portland, where he lived a year; he then came to Illinois, and settled in McLean Co., working by the month for Mr. M. L. Bishop; in 1847, he came to his present place, and has lived there since. He is not an office-seeker, and has held no office, except connected with the schools and roads. He owns 508 acres in this county, located about three miles southeast of Randolph Station, on the Big Kickapoo Creek; it is well adapted to stock-raising, in which he is largely interested. March 26, 1846, he married Miss Mary Thompson, a native of Ohio; they have had ten children, seven of whom are living— Chloe, George, Jane E., Arthur A., James, Charles and Ida May. His parents, Aquilla and Susannah Winn Bishop, were natives of Virginia and Kentucky; they were married in Ohio, and died in Champaign Co., Ohio, in 1839 and 1823 respectively.