• Galen Bishop worked in this building, the depot for the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad on West Broad Street in Columbus. After passenger service was transferred to Union Station, the building was preserved and is today used as a fire station.

  • The card is stamped “L. D. Shipley, Photo. Fredericktown, O.” The writer identifies his address as Fredericktown Rt. #2, but offers no further information.

  • Galen Bishop’s World War One draft card offers some clues about his background and employment at the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, which had a depot in Columbus.

  • In 1915, Galen Bishop evidently served as editor and co-writer of an industrial technical manual about air brakes that was published in Columbus.

  • The back of the draft card gives us a description of the man, already gray haired at age 34.

  • The original Bishop farmhouse from the postcard discussed in last week’s History Knox column.