Montgomery Standard, Montgomery City, Missouri, 9 June 1893 (Friday)

S.A. Bishop, formerly of this county and brother of T.D. Bishop of Callaway 
and D.J. Bishop of this county, died at his home in San Jose, Cal., 
the 3rd of June.  He was about 69 years old, and had been in California many 
years.  He was the owner of the electric street car line from San Jose to 
Santa Clara, one of the first electric lines in that state.  He was an uncle 
of S.C. and John A. Bishop and a brother of Mrs James Oliver and Mrs Mary 
Perry.  His last visit to this section was sometime about '84 when he made a 
trip east to look into the working of electricity as the propelling power 
for street cars.  He was then running his line with horses but expressed the 
opinion that electricity was the coming power, and his prediction has been 
fully verified.