Bell, Robert C
soldier, lawyer, Clarksburg, Ind. He received his educastate senator, was born July 13, 1844, in tion at the university of Michigan, and graduated therefrom in 1868. During the civil war he served gallantly as a soldier in the Union army, first in the eighth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, and then in the one hundred and twenty-fourth regiment; and he was subsequently assigned to detached duty at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained until the close of the war. After the war he opened a law office in Muncie, Ind.; and in 1871 moved to Fort Wayne, where he has attained a reputation as one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana.
He has served in many high positions of public trust and responsibility; and in 1874 was elected to the state senate of the Indiana state legislature; received the re-election in 1888, and was chairman of the judiciary committee.