From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 492

MATTHEW P. BISHOP, son of Ira BISHOP and Sarah PATRICK, born at West Windsor, 
Vermont, August 15, 1822; came by way of western New York to Eagle in 1845; 
married, first, Roxana ALVORD November 14, 1848; bought a farm in Lagrange in 
1865; his wife died in the same year; married second, his sister-in-law, Mary 
E. ALVORD, in 1873; he died at home, January 1, 1883.  He was six times a 
member of the county board - twice its chairman, and in other ways useful in 
his town.  A son, Charles A. BISHOP, became a supreme court judge in Iowa.
 
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