Bell, John – Bellamy, Joseph
Bell, John
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 15, 1797, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1817 he was elected to the state senate; declined re-election, and devoted the next ten years of his life wholly to his profession. In 1827 he was elected a representative in gress, and continued to be re-elected until 1841, officiating during one term as speaker. In 1841 he conaccepted a seat in President Harrison's cabinet as secretary of war, which post he resigned in five months after the accession of President Tyler. In 1847 he accepted a seat in the house of representatives of Tennessee, but before the close of the year was elected to the United States senate; and was re-elected in 1852, serving from time to time as chairman of important committees until the close of the thirty-fifth congress. In 1860 he received from the Union party the nomination for president of the United States, but was defeated. He died Sept. 10, 1869, in Nashville, Tenn.
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, Luther Vose
physician, surgeon, legislator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1806, in Chester, N. H. He was the fourth son of Gov.
Bell, of New Hampshire, a noted lawyer and congressman.
In 1823 he graduated from Bowdoin college; studied medicine, and attained success in that profession. He was elected a member of the New Hampshire state legislature; and was appointed one of the special committee for making some provision for the insane. He was the author of numerous dissertations on medical subjects; and to him belongs the honor of having first brought the notice of the medical profession to a new form of disease, which has since been designated as Bell's disease, peculiar to the insane. He died Feb. 11, 1862, near Budd's Ferry, Md.
Bell, M. E
architect, was born Oct. 20, 1847, in Chester, N. H. He conceived the idea of becoming an architect, and studied for the profession; apprenticed himself to an able French architect of St.
Louis, Mo., and was engaged with him in the construction of the capitol buildings at Springfield, Ill., and Des Moines, Iowa, from 1870 to 1876. In the latter year his employer died, and Mr. Bell took charge of the work himself. While engaged upon the Iowa capitol he was tendered, and accepted, the position of supervising architect of the United States treasury.
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, 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.
Bell, Samuel
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, governor, was born Feb. 9, 1770, in Londonderry, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1793; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1796.
He was a member of the legislature from 1804 to 1808, occupying the position of speaker. In 1807 and 1808 he was a member of the senate; and in 1809 a member of the executive council. From 1816 to 1819 he was judge of the superior court of the state; and in 1819 was chosen governor, serving until 1823. From 1823 to 1835 he was United States senator. He died Dec. 23, 1850, in Chester, N. H.
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. H.
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.
Bellamy, Charles Joseph
journalist, author, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of Springfield, Mass., and the author of The Breton Mills, a Novel; Everybody's Lawyer; The Way Out; and Suggestions for Social Reform.
Bellamy, Edward
reformer, author, was born March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He is a socialist reformer whose Utopian theories embodied in the tale Looking Backward, 2000-1887, have been very widely read, and have resulted in the formation of several societies and communities that endeavor to put some of them in practice. His other works include Six to One, a Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, a Novel; and Miss Ludington's Sister, a Romance of Immortality. He died in 1898.
Bellamy, Mrs. Elizabeth Whit- Field
author, was born April 17, 1839, in Quincy, Fla. She is a novelist of Mobile, and the author of Four Oaks; Little Joanna; Penny Lancaster Farmer; Old Man Gilbert; and The Luck of the Pendennings.
Bellamy, John D
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born March 24, 1854, in Wilmington, N. C. He graduated from the Davidson college, and from the university of Virginia. He has been state senator and city attorney; is the author of several books; and a contributor to various newspapers and periodicals. were
Bellamy, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born in 1719, in Cheshire, Conn. He founded a divinity school in his parish, and trained many men there who afterwards famous among New England ministers. He is the author of True Religion Delineated; The Law Our Schoolmaster; The Half-Way Covenant; and The Nature and Glory of the Gospel.
He died March 6, 1790, in Bethlehem, Conn.