John Taylor Bell and Elizabeth Todd

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Husband John Taylor Bell ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Sep 1853 - Frostburg, Jefferson Co, PA 3
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         Father: Hugh McKee Bell (1826-1911) 4 5
         Mother: Eleanor Martin (1825-1911) 5 6

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       Marriage: 15 Sep 1885 3

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Wife Elizabeth Todd ⁵

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         Father: Col. William A. Todd (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Edna T. Bell ³

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2 M Hugh T. Bell ³

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General Notes: Husband - John Taylor Bell

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He obtained his early education in the public schools of his native county. Later he attended the normal school at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Mount Union College, at Alliance, Ohio, after which he read law, with Hon. S. M. Clark and J. N. Banks, both of Indiana. Meantime he had commenced teaching, when but sixteen years old, his first experience being at what was later known as the Pickering Run school, in East Mahoning township, Indiana County. He remained there one year, and was subsequently engaged in different parts of Indiana county for ten years, during the summer teaching in a school for teachers at Plumville. When he came to Indiana he was assistant to the principal, and followed his profession in the borough for three years, continuing to teach while he was reading law. He was very successful as an educator, and became well known throughout the county as an ardent friend of education. In 1886 Mr. Bell was admitted to the bar in Indiana County, and for two years practiced his profession, but owing to poor health decided to give up legal work, and thereafter devoted himself to general business pursuits. He was engaged principally as a salesman for school books, first for Porter & Coates, of Philadelphia, later with the Werner Company, of Akron, Ohio, and afterwards with the American Book Company, of New York. He was one of the directors of the Indiana Savings & Trust Company. He was a member of the school board of Indiana, Pennsylvania, for over twenty-five years. He was a member of the M. E. Church, and in social connection was a Mason, belonging to Indiana Lodge, No. 313, F. & A. M., to the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Lodge of Perfection.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Todd

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from Indiana, Indiana Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1375.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 867.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 870.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1212, 1374.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 869.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1374.