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Bell, John C – Bellamy, Alfred D

Bell, John C

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1851, in Grundy county, Tenn. He attended the public schools of his native county. In 1888 he was elected judge of the seventh judicial district of Colorado for a period of six years. He was elected to the fiftythird, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses.

Bell, Joshua F

lawyer, orator, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847, and declined a re-election. He was a lawyer, and distinguished in the west as an orator; and was a member of the peace convention of 1861. He died Aug. 17, 1870, in Kentucky.

Bell, Lilian

journalist, author, was born in 1867 in Kentucky. She graduated from the Dearborn seminary of Chicago, Ill.; and has attained success as a journalist. She is the author of The Love Affairs of an Old Maid; A Little Sister to the Wilderness; The Under Tide of Things; From a Girl's Standpoint; Instinct of Stepfatherhood; and other stories.

Bell, Peter H

jurist, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was governor of Texas from 1849 to 1853; was a representative in congress from Texas from 1853 to 1857; and subsequently became judge of the supreme court of that state.

Bell, Samuel Dana

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 9, 1798, in Francestown, N. H. He was a justice of the superior court; in 1855 justice of the supreme court; and from 1859-64 served as chief justice. He died July 31, 1868, in Chester, N. H.

Bell, Samuel Newell

lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1829, in Chester, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1847; studied law, and practiced at Manchester. He was elected to the forty-second congress; and was subsequently appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire.

He was also elected to the forty-fourth congress. He died Feb. 8, 1889, in Manchester, N. Η.

Bell, Theodore S

physician, was born in 1807 in Kentucky. He was appointed professor of medicine and hygiene in the university of Louisville, and editor of the Louisville Medical Journal, positions which placed him in the front rank of his profession. He died Dec. 28, 1884, in Louisville, Ky.

Bell, William

lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1828, in Utica, Ohio. In 1871 he was elected a member of the Ohio house of representatives, receiving the re-election in 1873, and again in 1881.

He has been mayor of Newark, Ohio, and filled various other positions of honor

Bell, William Allen

educator, editor, was born Jan. 30, 1833, in Clinton county, Ind. He attended Antioch college, Ohio, while Horace Mann was president. He became principal of the Indianapolis High school, president of the Indiana State Teachers' association, and for more than twenty-five years editor and publisher of the Indiana School Journal, and is still doing this work. He is one of the oldest educational editors in the United States.

Bell, William A

capitalist, was born in 1841 in Ireland. In 1870 he settled in Colorado, and was associated with Gen. William J. Palmer in the building of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, and had a share in the management afterward, being vice-president for several years.

Bellamy, Alfred D

physician, manufacturer, was born July 15, 1847, in Watkins, N. Y. For many years he successfully practiced medicine, but was compelled to change his occupation on account of deafness. In 1882 he established the Florence Wagon company, one of the first wholesale manufacturers of farm wagons in the southern states, and of which he is still president.