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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. was United States senator. He died May

36,

1857, in Laconia, N.H. Bell, James Dana, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 30, 1840, in Exeter, N.H. He graduated from the Phillips Exeter academy, and the Harvard Law school, and has attained eminence as a successful lawyer and jurist. He

was a member of the constitutional convention of South Carolina; and has served as a judge of the probate court. Bell,

James Franklin,

soldier,

was born

Ky. In 1878 he

Jan. 9, 1856, in Shelbyville,

graduated from the United States military academy. In 1878-94 he was engaged on the plains; and 1883 captured a tribe of halfbreed Cree Indians near Fort Buford, S.D. He served in the Spanish-American war in the Philippine insurr-

He organized the thirty-sixth infantry United States volunteers in the islands ection.

in 1899. He was awarfor gallantry in action.

ded a medal of honor In 1899 he was appointed brigadier-general in the United States army. Since 1906 he has been chief of the staff United States army; and in 1907 he attained the rank of major-general. Bell, James M., congressman, was born in Ohio. In 1833-35 he was a representative from Ohio to the twenty -third congress. Bell,

James Montgomery,

soldier,

was born

1837, in Williamsburg, Pa. He served throughout the civil war; and in many Indian wars. During the Spanish-American war he became brigadier-general United States volunteers; and was retired in 1902. Oct.

1,

Bell, John, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was bom Feb. 15, 1797, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1817 he as elected to the Tennessee state senate; declined a re-election ; and devoted the next ten years of his life wholly to his profeession. In 182741 he was a representative from Tennessee to the twentieth to the twenty-sixth congress-

and in 1834-35 he was a speaker of the house. In 1841 he was es;

a secretary of war. In 1847-59 he was United States senator for Tennessee. 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, merchant, governor, was born in 1766 in Londonderry, N.H. He was for many years a merchant in Chester, N.H.

was councilor of the state and was

sheriff of

293

Rockingham county in 1823-38. In 1829-30 he was governor of New Hampshire. He died March 22, 1836, in Chester, N.H. Bell, John, statesman, congressman. In 1850-51 he was a representative from Ohio to the sixty-lirst congress. Bell, John C, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1851, in Grundy county, Tenn. In 1888 he was elected judge of the seventh judicial district of Colorado for a period of six years. In 1893-1903 he was a rep-, resentative from Colorado to the fifty-third,

fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth seventh congresses.

and

fifty-

John Hann, soldier, was born in Michwas a lieutenant in the fifth regiment New York volunteer infantry. In 1865 he was brevetted colonel and brigadierBell,

igan. In 1861 he

He

died April 30, 1875. I., physician, lecturer, author, was born in 1796 in Ireland. He was professor of the practice of medicine in the Medical college of Ohio. He was the author of Health general. Bell,

John

and Beauty; Regimen and Longevity; Lectures on the Practice of Physic; and several other medical works.

He

died in 1873 in Ohio.

John T., soldier, author, was born in Iowa. For many years he was a member of the Iowa infantry. He is the author of Civil War Stories, compiled from the official records of both union and •confederate. Bell,

Bell, Joseph, soldier, educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 30, 1844, in Sharon,

lecturer,

He

Ohio.

is

an eminent minister of the methodist episcopal church of the central Illinois

conference ; and now holds a pastorate in Galesburg, 111. During the civil war he served gallantly as a private soldier, and was in numerous battles and skirmishes. For ten years he was engaged in educational work and since 1880 has been engaged in the ministry. His principal lectures are Grit and Sand, Army Life, Flag and What It Stands

For; and George Washington. Bell, Joseph, lawyer, jurist. He was judge of one of the United States territorial courts. Bell, Joseph Warren, soldier, was born in North Carolina. In 1861 he enlisted from Illinois was colonel in the thirteenth regiment Illinois cavalry; and in 1865 was brevetted

brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Jan. 28, 1879. Bell, Joshua F., lawyer, orator, congress-

man, was born in Kentucky. In 1845-47 he was a representative from Kentucky to the twenty-ninth congress. He 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 is a novelist of Chicago, 111. She is the author of The Love Af-,