Washington Irving Bishop was a Victorian Era Mentalist/Mind Reader, or what we might think of today as a Psychic Entertainer. One of his signature feats was driving a horse drawn carriage blind folded. He got his start working with Anna Eva Fay and later Jacob Randall Brown. He had an interesting life and an even more interesting death which you can read about here, http://www.themagicdetective.com/2011/03/strange-life-death-of-washington-irving.html
Bishop is buried in the Green-wood Cemetery 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232
He is buried in Lot 5628 Section 117
Died May 13th, 1889
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