Background
Dorn, Horace Bishop Van was born on September 23, 1883 in Red Bank, New Jersey, United States. Son of Doctor Horace Bishop and Harriett Rebecca (Goff) Van Dorn.
Dorn, Horace Bishop Van was born on September 23, 1883 in Red Bank, New Jersey, United States. Son of Doctor Horace Bishop and Harriett Rebecca (Goff) Van Dorn.
Student Engineering College Ohio State University, 1901-1903.
Draftsman Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, 1903-1906. Traveling salesman, stationery trade, 1906-1908. Successively pencil salesman, assistant sales manager, sales manager, vice-president and director Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, Jersey City, since 1908.
Member National Stationery and Office Equipment Association (chairman manufacturers division 1945-1946), American Tariff League (board of managers, Executive Committee since 1938), Boston, Connecticut Valley stationers associations. Mason (Shriner).
Married Mabel Wikoff, October 12, 1909.; married second, Gertrude Kniering, October 20, 1928. Children: Laura (Mistress General Рractitioner Bolsover), Horace Bishop 3d.