About Joseph L. Bishop

Dr. Joseph Layton Bishop, Jr. was born in the small farming community of Delta, Utah. Among the many things he learned while on the farm was that farmers could not then and cannot now control early and late frosts, the untimely raging rains, or the fierce winds that often blow newly mown hay into the next country. One cold wintry night, while struggling to dam up an overflowing irrigation ditch, he made a life-changing decision: he was not going to be a farmer. He was going to be a university professor. The next year he unceremoniously left the farm to pursue his goal.

He is married to Rena M. Davis, a retired nurse, and between the two of them, they have ten children, more grandchildren than they ever could have wished for, and a few great-grandchildren. Both now retired, they live in beautiful St. George, Utah.