O. F. Bishop
O. F. Bishop, general superintendent of the Blooming Mills, Nos. 3, 4, 5 skelp mills, of the La Belle Iron Works, at Steubenville, O., has been a resident of this city for seven years. He was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1866, and is a son of William S. and Mary F. Bishop, the latter of whom is deceased. William S. Bishop is one of the oldest and leading business men of Pottstown, Pa.
Mr. Bishop was reared in his native county and attended the public schools until seventeen years of age, and a private academy conducted by Prof. John F. Arms, now deceased, for three years, and then the Hill School of Prof, John Megs, at Pottstown.
Mr. Bishop is an experienced man in the iron and steel business, having been connected with these industries almost since boyhood. He first went to work in the Basic Bessemer steel mill at Pottstown, under Joseph Hartshorne, where he remained for three years, and then was with the Pencoyd Iron and Steel Company of Philadelphia as assistant superintendent of their rolling department, for two years, afterward working for four years with the National Steel Company at Sharon, as assistant general manager. He then went back to the Philadelphia company and afterward was for three years in charge of the branch office, at No. 813 Betz Building, Philadelphia, of The R. W. Hunt Company, of New York. He then came to Steubenville and has been identified with the La Belle Iron Works ever since.
In 1888, Mr. Bishop was married to Miss Mary J. Wolfe, of Pottstown, Pa., and they have four children: Robert, Dorothy, Anna Grace and Richard. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are members of the Lutheran Church at Pottstown. He takes no active interest in politics but is recognized as a citizen of value, and as a man of marked efficiency in his special line.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910