Background
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin was born on September 5, 1847 in Seekonk, Massachusetts (now E. Providence, Rhode Island). Son of James Madison and Elzada (Balcom) Bishop.
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Bishop, Joseph Bucklin was born on September 5, 1847 in Seekonk, Massachusetts (now E. Providence, Rhode Island). Son of James Madison and Elzada (Balcom) Bishop.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown, 1870, honorary Doctor of Letters, 1923.
Editorial staff New York Tribune, 1870-1883. Editorial writer New York Evening Post, 1883-1900. Chief editorial staff New York Globe, 1900-1905.
Secretary Isthmian Canal Commission, 1905-1914. Member National Institute Arts and Letters. Author: Cheap Money Experiments, 1892.
Our Political Drama, 1904. Issues of a New Epoch, 1904. The Panama Gateway, 1913.
A Chronicle of One Hundred and Fifty Years, 1918. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Shown in His Letters, 2 vols., 1920. Life of Charles J. Bonaparte, 1922.
Life of A. Barton Hepburn, 1923. Notes and Anecdotes of Many Years, 1925. Editor: Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, 1919.
Member National Institute Arts and Letters.
Married Harriet Hartwell, December 14, 1872 (died 1917). Children: Alice (deceased), Hartwell (deceased), Farnham.