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| Name | Narrative | Branch and Rank | Unit and Specialty | Conflict/Arena | Born/Died |
| John Bishop | John Bishop was born in Lumberton on June 17, 1778, a few days before the Battle of Monmouth, to Robert and Jane Bishop. John was descended on his mother’s side from a full-blooded Indian girl of the Lenni Lenape tribe who had assumed the English name of Mary Carlisle. She married Richard Haines, one of three Haines brothers who had emigrated from Northamptonshire, England, and were the original settlers of Burlington County. In 1784 the family moved to the north side of the Rancocas Creek where it empties into the Delaware, ground on which Delanco was later built. John was an avid swimmer and skater, and trapper of foxes, muskrat and mink. It was said he frequently swam to the island that came to be known as Hawk Island to bring geese home to his mother. John raised chickens and sheep. He was ten when his father died. John was educated in a log schoolhouse in the pine woods. At age 16 he taught school for a year on what was later called the Moorestown – Camden Turnpike. He went to live and farm with his brother, then moved to Philadelphia and clerked for Harry Moliere, who had a ropewalk in Kensington. About this time he made the acquaintance of banker and philanthropist Steven Girard, founder of Girard College. Then Bishop went into partnership in the plumbing business with a Mr. Couslan, assuming control of the business when Couslan died. Bishop later teamed with a Mr. Sparks to establish Bishop & Sparks Plumbing located on Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia. Just prior to the War of 1812 the firm went from plumbing to the manufacture of shot, and a 150 foot shot tower was built in 1808 on Montrose Street in Southwark. The firm manufactured shot for the Mexican War. John sold his interest in the company in 1813 and bought the Ogston farm outside Columbus, New Jersey. He lived there for the rest of his days. John married (first) Mary, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Ridgway of Mullica Hill and (second) Ann Black. John died December 2, 1863 in Burlington County. | Military Industrialist | Munitions Mfgr | War of 1812, Mexican War of 1846 | 1778 - 1863 |
Updated October 30, 2023