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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. D. from American and European universities. About 1873 he became professor of vocal physiology in the Boston university. In 1876 he invented the telephone; and subsequently the photophone, induction balance, and telephone probe for painless detection of bullets in the human body. He is president of the American association to promote teaching of speech of the deaf; president of the national geographical society; and is regent of the Smithsonian institution. He is the author of numerous scientific and educational monographs. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, born in 1819, was for many years a noted professor of elocution; and now resides with his son in Washington, D.C. He invented visible speech; and his written many works on Orthoepy, Phonetics, Stenography and Elocution. Bell,

Alexander Melville, educator, author,

was born about 1819 in Scotland. He became a resident of the United States in 1881. He is the author of Principles of Speech and Elocution. He died Aug. 11, 1905, at Lake Mahopac, N.Y. Charles Christian, soldier, merchant, banker, was born Aug. 30, 1848, in Germany. In 1864-65 he served as a soldier in the union army. In 1877-91 he was engaged in the wholesale fruit business and he organized the International apple association, shippers

member

of the state house of representativ1872-73. In 1879-81 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy. In 1881-83 he was governor of New Hampshire. He was the author of The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire. He died Nov. 11, 1893, in Exetes

in

er,

was

its first president,

and became known as the Apple King of

N.H.

Bell, Charles

ernor,

Bell,

Aug.

Charles H., naval

New

officer,

York.

He

was born

served in of 1812 as midshipman; in 1862 was promoted to commander in the civil war; in 1866 attained the rank of rear-admiral; and placed on the retired list, after sixtytwo years' service. He died Feb. 19, 1875, In Brunswick, N.J. Bell, Charles H., lawyer. United States senator, governor, author, was born Nov. 18, 1823, in Chester, N.H. He was a solicitor for Rockingham county in 1855-65; was a representative in the state legislature in 185860; and the last year was speaker. He was a state senator in 1863-64; president ol the state senate the last year; and was again a the

15, 1798, in

war

soldier, gov-

16, 1845, in

Walden,

Bell, Charles K., lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born April 18, 1853, in Chattanooga, Tenn. He moved to Texas;

and was elected district attorney, state senator and district judge, serving four years in each position. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1884. In 1893-97 he was a representative from Texas to the fifty-third Bell, Charles

and fifty-fourth congresses.

Upham, lawyer,

jurist,

was

born Feb. 26, 1843, in Exeter, N.H. He was educated at Kimball union academy; attended Phillips Exeter academy; and in 1863 graduated from Bowdoin college. He soon attained success in the practice of law in New England. He is now an associate justice ,of

the superior court of Massachusetts.

Bell, Clark, lawyer, journalist, author, born March 12, 1832, in Rodman, N.Y.

was educated at Franklin academy

was

He

of Pratt-

sburgh, N.Y. In 1853 he was admitted to the bar and practiced at Hammondsport, N. Y. and since 1864 in

Missouri. In 1881-86 he was a member, and president of the city council; and was mayor of Booneville in 1886-89. He was the organizer of the Farmers bank and its vice-president. In 1892 he was a delegate to the republican national convention; and there was elected a member of the notification committee to President Harrison. In 1896 he was a presidential elector on the McKinley ticket; and in 1901-02 was commissioner and treasurer of the Missouri commission to the Pan-American and Charleston expositions.

James, farmer,

was born March

Yt. In 1862 he entered the union army as a private soldier and became a corporal in company C, first Vermont cavalry. In 1882 he was a member of the Vermont house of representatives; and in 1894 was a member of the state senate. In 1904-06 he was governor of the state of Vermont.

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York

City.

He

is

at-

torney for the Union pacific railway. Pacific

mail steamship company and other corporatiens. In 1872 he was president of the medico-legal several

society,

and

times

later and also in 1900. He was the originator and president of the Saturday night club in 1883; and has been president of various clubs and other institutions in New York City. He is the editor and founder of the Medico-Legal Journal. He is the author of Bell's Medico-Legal Studies, of which six volumes have already been published. Bell,

David Charles, educator,

authoi*,

was

born in 1817 in Scotland. In 1881 he became a resident of Washington, D.C. He is the author of A Reader's Shakespeare; Theory of Elocution; Modern Reader and Speaker; and The Standard Elocutionist. He died in 1902 in Washington, D.C. Bell, Digby, singer, actor, was bom in 1849 in Milwaukee, Wis. He played in leading ba-