He grew up on his family’s 200-year-old dairy farm, Ogston, in Burlington County, N.J., and prepared at Penn Charter. At Princeton, he ate at Ivy Club, lettered in basketball, and graduated from SPIA, now the Woodrow Wilson School. He went to Penn for law school.
Professionally, Jack distinguished himself in two fields: practicing law and raising dairy cattle. The first he did in an illustrious 40-year career in the fiduciary department at Dechert in Philadelphia, serving for a time as the firm’s managing partner. During his law practice he had a long partnership at Ogston part time with his father, John V. Bishop 1908.
After retiring from law, Jack became one of the best-known and most successful dairy cattle breeders in the country, serving for a time as director of the American Jersey Cattle Association, and being honored in 1987 as its outstanding cattle breeder. The class’s Reunions symbol, a cow with the motto “No udder like us,” obviously was inspired by Jack. Throughout his life, Jack remained highly involved with Princeton, serving in key leadership roles.
The class extends sympathy to Jack’s sons, Bob ’62 and Bailey ’64; two daughters; 11 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. His wife of over 60 years, Daisy, died in 1997. In the last decade of his life, Jack enjoyed the companionship of Debby Redpath, a Princeton widow.