Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-10
Member OF Iowa Supreme Court
Expires Suddenly at Wat
erlOO
AT STATE BAR MEETING
While Conversine With Friends in
Hotel Lobby the Summons Came Il
Bar Banquet Abandoned Because of
His Death-Judse Bishop Well
Known Among Legal Fraternity.
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Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo, July 10.-Judge Charles A.
Bishop of The supreme court died sud-
denly at Waterloo last evening, While
attending The meeting of the State Bar
Association. He was standing in the
! lobby of the new Hotel Ellis, convers-
ing with friends, when the summons
| came In the middle of a sentence he
Strengthened suddenly, gasped, and
tottering. feM into the arms of those
near him.
He was carried to a couch at once
and physicians who happened to be
present fastened to his side, but death
had preceded INSTANTLY and painlessly
Judge Bishop was at Waterloo to
attend the meeting of the state bar
association. AT the time of his death
he was whiting with friends to go into
rhe annual banquet Of the organization
which was to have been attended by
several hundred attorneys and other
prominent men. On account of his
death the banquet was abandoned and
the sessions of the convention will be
curtailed.
Mrs. Bishop and the little 6-year-old
daughter and Mrs Matthew Smith
Mr.. Smith is brother of the wife of
Judge Bishops son-are visiting at the
summer home of Mrs. Bishops par
ents, the Lyman home at a village
Iyb &
off railroad and difficult OF access.
Judge Bishops son, Alvord Bishop, re-
sides in Cleveland. He is claim agent
for the Iowa Central and other Haw-
lev railroads A daughter. Lura, now
Mrs. George B. Ryan, lives in Alma
gurda. New Mexico. Another daugh-
ter, Josephine, is in Red Oak.
Self Educated Man.
Judge Bishop was "a years of age in
May. Few lawyers. practicing at the
Iowa bar, so quickly attained leader
ship as did he His personality made
him popular among men and his nat
ural ability and the learning he &C
Quired by dfligent study furnished him
the foundation for a permanent and
high position In his profession. He
was admitted to the bar in Waupaca,
Wis., in 1875, then 81 years OF age,
and having won his certificate by the
hardest kind Of work, but the kind of
work which usually spells success. He
was born on a farm near Waukesl1a.
Wis, and had the advantage only. of
the common schools in the acquire
ment of an education. While working
on the farm and while teaching school
In the winter months, he studied at
night, and the knowledge he dug from
the law books with which he provided
himself was not of the kind which
takes to itself wings and flies away
In the same year, 1876, he came to
Iowa and located at LaPorte, Black
Hawk county. He not only practiced
law there but was also editor of the
newspaper, the Review, and easily
gained and held the position of the
most influential man Of the commune
ty. 1t was in the LaPorte office that
a young lad named Joe Mitchell Chap
pei got a taste of the business of the
type and his National Magazine is a
monument to the precepts with which
the lad was inculcated by his lawyer
editor friend.
This friendship between Judge Bis
hop and Chapel has lasted during all
of the interim and the helpfulness OF
the advice of the Iowa j1rist will ever
be acknowledged by the magazine pub
Usher.
Came to pes Moines.
After eight years of this formative
period In two professions at LaPorte.
Judge Bishop accompanied Judge j. s
Ragg Of the Dubuque district to the
city of Minneapolis Judge Bagg died
at Minneapolis before they had
fairly gotten started in the practice
there and Judge Bishop returned to
Iowa. He was still undecided whether
to make newspapering or the law his
life work and went to Cherokee, where
he published the Times for . few
He then sold that establish
ment and the business and came to
Des Moin as, permanently to undertake |
the practice OF the Law in the year
1885.
He entered the Arm Of Baker &
The senior member Of the /
firm was A. j. Baker of Centerville, |
the attorney general of the state, and
who still is living. The Junior mem |
Der of the firm was Marcus Kava-
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elected district judge here and then /
went to Chicago, where he now is one |
of the most prominent Judges of the !
or circuit bench. With the I
Of Judge Kavanaugh from |
the firm to go on the district bench,
it became, Baker, Bishop & Hastings, |
and the rext year Mr.. Bishop went to
the state house as assistant attorney
general with Mr. Baker.
His judicial Career.
When Judge Josiah Given. Of Polk !
county, was appointed supreme Judge I
Governor Larrabee in March, 1889, Mr.. .
Bishop was appointed district Judge in
this district to fill the vacancy. He was
not reelected, however, in 1890, on
account of the democratic landslide of t
that year, and resumed the practice Of
the law III this city.
In 1897 he was again appointed dis
trict judge in Polk county, by Govern
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