Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885, Webster Co. E.G. BISHOP, editor of the Webster County Record, was born September 28, 1857, in Hopkins County, Ky. His father, Isaac W. Bishop, who was a surveyor by profession, and who also engaged in agricultural pursuits, died in 1876, aged fifty-seven years. E.G. was reared on his father's farm, and, at the age of thirteen, commenced to work at the printing trade at Greenville, and followed this trade most of the time until 1880, when he established his present paper, which now has a circulation of about 1,100. Bishop = Hopkins Muhlenberg http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/webster/bishop.eg.txt