A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. Page: 497
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-~~~~~~N HILCUTIS 9
Texas, and a daughter of Samuel Friou, then
of Johnson county. The children of this
union are Mamie, Virgie F. and Wylie M.,
twins. Mr. Bishop has been a Mason since
the age of twenty-one years, is a Democrat
politically, and has always been elected to the
offices he has held by his own merits.
y APTAIN JAMES N. ENGLISH, attorney
at law, Cleburne, Texas, is one of
the most prominent members of the bar
of Johnson county. HEe was born in Red
River county, now Lamar county, Texas, seven
miles from the present site of Paris, near old
Pin Hook Station, December 24, 1837, and is
a son of Campbell and Elizabeth English. His
father was born in Giles county, Tennessee,
removed with his father to Missouri at the
age of ten years, and came thence to Texas
in 1835; he first settled in Red River county,
now Lamar county, and afterward went to
old Titus county, where he died in 1867, at
the age of sixty-eight years. He had been a
soldier in the Black Hawk war, was a typical
frontiersman, rough in exterior, but of a brave
and generous heart. Captain English was
reared in Titus county, whither his parents
removed soon after his birth. He received
only an ordinary education, the opportunities
afforded in the common schools of that
day being exceedingly meager.
When the war between the North and
South broke out, he enlisted in the Confederate
service, in the summer of 1861, joining
Company I, Ninth Texas Cavalry, and beingassigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department;
he was in some minor engagments in
Indian Territory and participated in the battle
of Pea Ridge, Arkansas; then he was with
Van Dorn and Price beyond the Mississippi
river at Corinth, and took part in other engagerents
in that vicinity. Soon after entering
the service he was elected Captain of his
company, and held the office until his resignation
in 1862. After this he came home
and went into the Texas frontier service,
raising a company of which he was elected
Captain, and remained in this service until
the close of the war. In 1866, on account
of the unsettled condition of affairs at home
following the war, he went to Tennessee, and
remained there until 1870, variously employed
in gaining his livelihood. In the
year last mentioned he returned to Johnson
county, taking up his residence at Cleburne,
September 21. Here he embarked in the
mercantile business, which he followed two
years, and then began the practice of law, to
which he has since devoted his time and energies.
He was elected County Attorney in
1876, and discharged the duties of this office
for a period of two and one-half years. The
citizens of Johnson county further attested
the confidence which they repose in him by
electing him a member of the Sixteenth Legislature.
He served in this capacity one
term, and in 1884 he was again elected to
the office of County Attorney. He has ever
proven himself equal to the demands of his
position, has ever kept the best interests of
his constituency uppermost, and fully merits
the esteem in which he is held.AND HIL L COUN2TIES.
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Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46829/m1/525/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Genealogical Society.