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By 



HoT.PRTnGK (). Collins, L.L.I). 



A chivalric I'alriut has surrendered the Hfe which, in unquench- 

 able love for his native land, he tendered for her preservation and 

 integrity during our terrible internecine war. 



Herbert I\L Bishop, descended through a long and distinguished 

 line of Colonial and Revolutionary ancestors, whose names are em- 

 blazoned in the historic pages of our Country, was born in New 

 London, Connecticut, in the year 1844. 



Graduating from Yale University in 1865, he chose the Medical 

 Profession for his life's work and in this became noted both for his 

 initiative talents and the adaptation of the best of old ideas to im- 

 proved methods. 



He was Surgeon of the First Regiment of Connecticut Cavalry 

 during the War of the Rebellion, and, upon the organization of the 

 Grand Army of the Republic, he was elected its Grand Commander 

 in Connecticut, and after coming to California, he affiliated with a 

 Post in Los Angeles. In virtue of his rank as an Officer, he was 

 elected a member of the California Commandery of the Military 

 Order of the Loyal Legion. 



He w^as a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and 

 President of the California Homoeopathic Society. Together with 

 the Order of Knights Templar, he belonged to the Shrine and he 

 received the 3 2d Degree of the Scottish Rite. 



In 1892 he came to California and established a new home in 

 Los Angeles for his family and here, he devoted his energies to his 

 profession with exceptional success. 



His master-passion was to learn the Why, the How, and the 

 Where of all creation, material as well as spiritual, and, being gifted 

 in his intellectual endowment with great analytic efficiency and re- 

 lentless energy, he resorted to several of the branches of Science for 

 a thread which would lead him forth from the labyrinth of his un- 

 certatinties. 



Upon his dwelling he constructed an Astronomical Observatory 

 with which he gave years of study to the systems of the Universe, and 

 the result of his investigations were imparted in most interesting dis- 

 cussions at meetings of the Sotuhern California Academy of Sciences 

 of which he was a most zealous member. 



To him was granted compliance with that beautiful prayer of 

 Tobias, — "Mercifully ordain that we may grow aged together," for 

 his life's love and companion preceded him but a short time to the 

 Great Unknown. 



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