BISHOP, ROBERT S., M. D., of Medina, N.Y., was born in Paris, Oneida county, N. V., November 22d, 1831, of English
ancestry.
Alter enjoying the benefit of home institutions, he entered, in his sixteenth year, Whitestown Seminary, at Whitestown, N.Y.; at
eighteen, Seminary at Casenovia, N.Y.
After leaving that school, he engaged in teaching for several years, and in mercantile pursuits, and graduated from the Western
Homoeopathic Medical College in 1861.
He then became a partner with Dr. D. F. Bishop, of Lockport, N. Y., for two years, when, at the urgent request of friends, he
located, in 1863, at Chittenango, Madison county, N. Y. There he was the pioneer of homoeopathy, and attained a large and very valuable
practice. Again, at the urgent solicitation of his fricnds, he removed to Medina, Orleans county, N. Y., in April, 1865, to occupy the field
made vacant by the death of Dr. Stebbins. Here he encountered a violent allopathic opposition, but by his prudence, tact and ability has
overcome it all, and placed homoeopathy upon a solid basis in that vicinity.
Early in business life he was married to Miss Mary L. Hutchins, of Casenovia, N.Y. In 1867, he became a member of the New York State
Homoeopathic Medical Society. In 1869, he was a member of the American Institute Of Homoeopathy, and has been Secretary and
Treasurer of Niagara and Orleans County Homoeopathic Medical Society since its organization.
Dr. Bishop, in his professional career, has a character for gentleness in his treatment of his patients, while his quick
eye and unerring judgment have contributed largely to his success in practice. By faithfulness in professional duties,
and by his weight of character, he has won an exceptionally large practice, and a high place in public esteem
throughout the County of Orleans.
CLEAVE, E. Cleave’s biographical cyclopaedia of homoeopathic physicians and surgeons. 1873