Bishop, Pierpont E

Bishop, Pierpont E.

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Amherst County,Va., in 1803. He graduated at Hampden Sidney College, Va., in 1829, and at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y., in 1833. He was licensed by Bethel Presbytery, and began preaching in North Carolina in 1834. Hc labored successively at Ebenezer, Unity, Yorkville, Bethesda, S. C., and other places in the vicinity. He died at Bennettsville, S. C., March 5, 1859. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1860, p. 66.