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an Old Maid; A Little Sister to the Wilderness; The Under Side of Things; From a Girl's Standpoint; Instinct of Stepfatherhood; and other stories. Bell, Louis, soldier, lawyer, was born in 1836 in Chester, N.H. He attained the rank of colonel. In the attack on Fort Fisher in 1865 he commanded a brigade of General Ames's division; and was mortally wounded while leading his men in assault upon one of the traverses of that work. He died on the day following the engagement, Jan. 16, 1865, near Fort Fisher, N.C.

Bell, Ola Walter, soldier, army officer, was born May 13, 1871, in Glendale, Mich. He graduated from the United States military academy of West Point. During the Spanish-American war he served as second lieutendant with the third United States cavalry; and served three years in the Philippine insurrection as second lieutenant of the third

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cavalry, first lieutenant of the eighth cavalry and first lieutenant of the third United States cavalry. In 1902 he was captain of the port, inspector of customs and collector of internal revenue; and later became depot quartermaster at San Fernando, Union, Luzon, P.I., and is now captain of the seventh cavalry.

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Bell, Louis, educator, lecturer, author,

born Dec. 5, 1854, in Chester, N.H. In 188898 he was a professor of electricity. He has taken out twenty-five patents, mainly relating to power transmission apparatus. He is part author of The Electric Railway; Power Distributed for Electric Railroads; and other works. Bell, Luther Vose, physician, surgeon, legislator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1806, in Chester, N.H. He was the fourth son of Governor Bell of New Hampshire. In 1833 he grad-

from Bowdoin and studied medicine and attained uated

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success in that profession. He was elected a member of the New Hampshire state legislature; and was appointed one of the special

committee for mak-

ing some provision for the insane. He was the author of numerous valuable 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 Perry, Md.

Bell, M. E., architect, was born Oct. 20, 1847, in Chester, N.H. In 1870-76 he 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, 111., and at Des Moines, Iowa. In 1876 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, Mrs. Mary Adelaide Fuller, litterateur, author, was born Jan. 1, 1863, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. She is the author of Victor in Buzzland; Clare's Problem; The King's

Rubies; Book.

Bell, Peter Hansbrough, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in Virginia. He was governor of Texas in 1849-53. In 1853-57 he was a representative from Texas to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. He subsequently became judge of the supreme court of that state. He died March 10, 1898, in Littleton, N. C. Bell, Robert Allen, accountant, mine owner, president, was born Aug. 30, 1853, in Scott county, Ky. He received his education in the public schools of his native state; and graduated from the high school of SheIbyville, Ky. As bookkeeper and pay master he has been connected with a dozen large mining companies ; and is now president of the Bast Pacific mining company of Wins-

ton, Mont.;

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affairs of his

red and thirty-fourth regiment. He was subsequently assigned to detached duty in the city of Nashville,Tenn. where he remained until the close of the civil war. After the civil

and Leaves from Nature's Year-

Nicholas Montgomery, merchant, was 2, 1846, in Lincoln county. Mo. Since 1869 he has been engaged in the tobacco business in St. Louis, Mo. He was the author of and negotiated general postal treaties of the United States with foreign countries.

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regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, and then in the one hund-

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public state; and has filled several positions of trust and honor. Bell, Robert C, soldier lawyer, state senator, was born July 13, 1844, in Clarksburg, Ind. During the civil war he served as a soldier in the union army, first in the eighth fied

Nov.

office in

war he opened a law Muncie, Ind.; and in 1871 moved to