sentences:  He was the president of the Naugatuck Railroad Company and the New York and New Haven Railroad Company
  
  Bishop was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey son of Alfred Bishop and Mary (Ferris) Bishop, and pursued preparatory studies.Graduating from Yale College in 1849, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar but did not practice.He married Julia A. Tomlinson in 1850, and they had six children.