Chapter IV. SHADOW OF A MAN

  Robert Hamilton Bishop's intermittent journals and letters, covering the entire period of his life in Ohio, 1824-55, are in the Miami Collection. James H. Rodabaugh's Robert Hamilton Bishop (Columbus, 1935) describes the early years of Miami University and the tensions within the Board of Trustees and the faculty. The Correspondence of Thomas E. Thomas (1909) contains a number of letters to early Miami faculty relating to the anti-slavery movement and Presbyterian doctrine. James H. Rodabaugh's "Miami University, Calvinism and the Anti-Slavery Movement" in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XLVIII (1939), 66-73, gauges winds of doctrine in early Miami. Thorton A. Mills reviewed "The Life and Services of Rev. R. H. Bishop, D.D.," in the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, December 1855. The origin of the old stone (telescope) pier was detailed by R. W. McFarland in the Miami Student, November 1904, and the account was reprinted in the Miami University Bulletin, October 1931.