The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-05
DEATH OF NM. D. BISHOP.
FORMER PRESIDENT OF CONs0L-
 DATED DIED YESTERDAY.

DATED DIED YESTERDAY. Death Came to Oae of conneetieai's
 Most Able, worthy and Esteemed
 KesIdeafs after an Hines of bus a Few
 Hssks-IIIns.s Came While Attending
 a Meeting of ths Board of Directors of
 the Consolidated Road-skeieh of His
 Career.
 William Darius Bishop. ST., vice-pres- ident of the board of directors of the Consolidated road and formerly presi- dent of the road. died at his home. 179 Washington avenue, Bridgeport, late yesterday morning. Death was direct ly due to heart disease, from which he had suffered for some time and with which he was stricken at a meeting of the board of directors a few weeks ago.
 The death of MT. Bishop is a loss to the city of Bridgeport and the state. He was man of rare ability, high iil- tegrity, most estimable, and a valuable citizen. He leaves many warm person. al friends among the leading business men of New Haven, as well as in many other portions of the state.
 Mr. Bishop was one of the most in- teresting men in Connecticut, net only from the standpoint of an old-time rail- road man, but as a politician and as business man. As the latter he was widely known in southern New Eng land As a politician he was an old time democrat and a contemporary of
 Minott A. Osborn, of the New Haven
 Register, A. E. Burr, of the Hartford
 Times, and Governors James E. Eng
 fish and Charles R. Ingersoll, of New 1 Haven.
 He was a gentleman of the old school
 man of few words, and with a large i sense of hunor.
 Mir Bishop was born in 1927 at Bloom
 field, N. J., and graduated from Yale l university in 1S49.
 He was educated for the legal profes- sion, but almost immediately entered 1 upon the work of railroad construction From that time until 1854 he was SC { employed upon the old New York anG ! New Haven line, the Naugatuck rail road and several railroads in the west i He found that his forte was in railroad
 ing. and from 1854 to 1855 he was su,
 perintendent of the Naugatuck, becon- ing its president then and continuing il
 this latter office for three years. Ht had been called the father of the Nau
 gatuck.y
 1 In 1857 he was elected to congress and he continued out of the railroad service until 1867, when he again re. ]; turned to the presidency of the Nauga- Luck railroad. All during this long 1 period of years, however, MT. Bishor | had not lost sight of the extensive l freight traffic which had been built ur 1 him that he made the Naugatuck pay handsome dividends before the New York and New Haven arrived at such g satisfactory basis.
 When the time came for the leasing of the Naugatuck road to the New Ha- ven it was done on 10 per cent. basis and MT Bishop was subsequently elect | ed president of the New York, New 1 Haven and Hartford railroad which office he held from 1867 to 1880. Since that time he had been, until this year president of the Naugatuck railroad I president of the Eastern Railroad as- | scciation, and for some years vice.
 president of the New Haven road A number of his offices were shifted from 1 his shoulders to those of his son, Will l liam D. Bishop, jr., the secretary of the New Haven railroad, late last year, be- l cause of the elder gentleman's delicate 1 health.
 l His position of vice president gave l him the vice presidency of the board of l directors, and it was in the directors
 room of the Consolidated railroad that
 conservative New England business
 men exercised great strength. During
 the policy of absorption carried out by l President Charles P. Clark of this
 road, from 1887 to 1889, he was in hearty
 sympathy with Mir. Clark's methods, i but was one of the conservative mem l bers of the board
 l To his far-sigaltedness is unauestion- l ably due much of the success which the Consolidated railroad has Won. l MT. Bishop leaves a widow who was Miss Julia Tomlinson, of Bridgeport
 and five ehildren-a daughter, Mary
 and four sons, William D. Bishop, jr. the present secretary of the Consoli- dated road; General H. A. Bishop, the l former purchasing agent of the Consol- dated and later e-president of the 1 Western Maryland railroad; Nathaniel I w. Bishop, a Bridgeport business man I and Russell T. Bishop, practicins I physician.
 l The funeral has been set for next I Monday at 2 p. m.
 \ The Rev. Edgar A. Enos of Troy, N 1 Y, will officiate at the services whicI will be held at the late home of MT
 Bishop, and Rev. Dr. w. H. Lewis, rec.
 tor of St. Johns Episcopal church, vii
 assist. Interment will be in Nertf Grove cemetery ill the family lot Int pallbearers have not been selected.