Universalist Church five years, and in Worcester Trinity Church two years. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. Congregational Ladies' Ass'n; pres. and vice-pres. two years Bay View Magazine Club. Has been delegate to many G.A.R. encampments.
BELL, Carolyn E., 20 Cobden St., Roxbury, Mass.
Club president; b. Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1850; dau. William A. and Marietta (Warren) Bell; ed. Boston Grammar School and High School. Pres. Ladies' Unity Club, Roxbury, Mass. (one of founders). Instrumental, with others, in founding Home for Aged People, Roxbury. Mem. Dudley Street Baptist Church, Roxbury, and mem. Dorchester Social Club of Women. Eligible to membership D.A.R. and Colonial Dames; direct descendant of Gen. Warren and the Pilgrims.
BELL, Ellen Chesbro (Mrs. W. J. Bell), 1411 N. Twenty-sixth St., St. Joseph, Mo.
Born Cleveland, O.; dau. George W. and Jane (Boyce) Chesbro; ed. high school, Willougbby, O., and Allegheny Coll., A.B. '90 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta); m. Oct. 10, 1890, Dr. W. J. Bell, physician and surgeon; children: Helen Stevens, Donald C., Dorothy Marion, Hugh Stevens Bell. Interested In Sunday-school work and home and foreign missions. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. of societies connected with church directly in interest of home and foreign missions. Author of several pamphlets in interest of Sunday-schools and missions,
BELL, Emily Ruth Harris (Mrs. John Edson Bell), Saratoga, Cal.
Teacher; b. Pulaski, Pa.; dau. Andrew Marquis and Jane (Oliver) Harris; grad. St. Mary's Hall, Faribault, Minn., '84; Winona State Normal School, '85; Univ. of Minn., B.L. (philosophical orator) '93 (mem. Delta Gamma); m. Faribault, Minn., Feb. 1, 1898, John Edson Bell; children: Ruth Harris, Margaret Oliver, Andrea Marquis. Taught in public schools of Faribault, Moorhead (Minn.) High School, Mills Coll., Cal., 1893-95; Winona Normal School, 1895-96. Pres. Santa Clara Co. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Interested in social welfare work. Mem (in absentia) Minneapolis Woman's Club. Strongly favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Books, travel, walking.
BELL, Gail Shepard (Mrs. Clarence Bell), Carlsbad. N.Mex.
Born Villesca, Iowa; ed. in schools of Des Moines, Iowa, and Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; m. Sept. 9, 1909, Clarence Bell; three sons. Teacher in Des Moines, Iowa, 1901-03.
BELL, Helene S. Taylor (Mrs. Clark Bell), 102 W. 84th St., N.Y. City.
Born Wheeler, Steuben Co., N.Y.; dau. Edric S and Alemna (Seamon) Taylor; ed. Prattsburgh Acad., Prattsburgh, N.Y.; m. Hammondsport, N.Y., Sept. 8, 1856, Clark Bell; children: Kate, Jeannie, Carrie, Helene (married John Fleming McClain). Was for seventeen years chairman of Exec. Com. N.Y. Infant Asylum; now mem. Woman's Health Protective Ass'n (was pres. five years, now vice-pres. and chairman of board). Mem. Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational). Mem. Sorosis. Opposed to woman suffrage.
BELL, Lilian (Mrs. Arthur H. Bogue), N.Y. City.
Author, magazine writer; b. Chicago, Ill.; dau. William W. and Nancy (Brown) Bell; ed. by governesses and in private schools; m. (Chicago, May 9, 1900, Arthur Hoyt Bogue; one daughter: Lilian Bell Bogue. Retains maiden name as pen-name. Author: The Love Affairs of an Old Maid; A Little Sister to the Wilderness; The Under Sides of Things; From a Girl's Point of View; The Instinct of Stepfather Wood; As Seen by Me; The Expatriate; Sir John and the American Girl; The Dowager Countess and the American Girl; Abroad with the Jimmies; At Home with the Jardines; The Interference of Patricia; Hope Loring; A Book of Gods; Carolina Lee; Why Men Remain Bachelors, and Other Luxuries; Angela's Quest; The Runaway Equator; The Methods of Hildegarde; The Land Of Don't-want-to. Favors woman suffrage.
BELL, Mabel Gardiner (Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell), 1331 Connecticut Av., Washington, D.C.
Born Cambridge, Mass.; dau. Gardiner Green and Gertrude Mercer (McCurdy) Hubbard; ed. at home and in Germany; m. Cambridge, Mass., 1877, Alexander Graham Bell; children: Elsie May (wife of Gilbert Grosvenor, editor Geographic Magazine), Marian Hubbard (wife of David Fairchild, agricultural explorer in charge U.S. Dep't of Agriculture). Favors woman suffrage. Author of pamphlet: The Subtle Art of Speech Reading, translated into several foreign languages (first appeared in Atlantic Monthly). Mem. Washington Club, Baddeck, N.S.; Brass d'Or Club (yacht club). Her father, Gardiner Green Hubbard, is credited with having done more than any other man to forward the cause of oral education for the deaf in America. She lost her hearing at age of four, years before there were any schools where deaf children could be taught to speak, and her father not only had his child taught to speak but by his persistence procured the establishing of the first oral school that has lived—the Clarke School at Northampton, Mass.
BELL, Mary Adelaide Fuller (Mrs. Fernando T. Bell), 156 Galena Boulevard, Aurora, Ill.
Author; b. Bellefontaine, O.; dau. Seth W. and Frances (Hull) Fuller; ed. public schools and Mount Hoiyoke Coll.; m. Bellefontaine, O., Dec. 16, 1885, Fernando T. Bell. Author: Victor in Buzzland; Clare's Problem; The King's Rubies; Leaves from Nature's Year-Book; The Vassalage; also contributor to various magazines.
BELL, Susan Kite Alsop (Mrs. William B. Bell), Margate Place, Atlantic City, N.J.
Teacher; ed. in Cornell, special student, 1891-93; Bryn Mawr, 1893-94; Cornell Univ., S.B. '98; m. 1903, William B. Bell. Teacher of English and mathematics in Westtown (Pa.) Boarding School, 1894-97; Wadleigh High School, N.Y. City, 1898-1903.
BELLAMY, Blanche Wilder (Mrs. Frederick P. Bellamy), 260 Henry St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Editor, writer; b. Albany, N.Y., Aug. 30, 1850; dau. John N. Wilder; ed. private schools, Brooklyn; Vassar Coll., A.B. '73; m. Dec. 3, 1879, Frederick P. Bellamy; one son. Magazine writer and contributor. Author: Twelve English Poets. Editor of Open Sesame and of the Distaff Series. Interested in various educational and philanthropic activities; for ten years vice-pres. of Brooklyn Hospital Training School for Nurses; associate trustee Barnard Coll. Served as a mem. N.Y. State Women's Board of Managers of the Chicago World's Fair, 1893. Mem. Vassar Aid Soc, Y.W.C.A. (Brooklyn), Barnard Club, Twentieth Century Club (N.Y. City).
BELLAMY, Mary Godat (Mrs. Charles Bellamy), Laramie, Wyo.
Born Richwoods, Washington Co., Mo.; dau. Charles A. and Catherine (Horine) Godat; ed. public schools of Galena, Ill., and Laramie, Wyo.; student at Wyoming Univ., Laramie; m. Charles Bellamy of Boston, civil engineer; children: Benjamin C., civil engineer; Fulton Bellamy. Has been a school teacher in Wyoming and Nevada. Elected to office of sup't of schools in Wyoming; first woman law-maker in State of Wyoming, being the first woman to run for and be elected to the Wyoming Legislature. Interested in educational matters, civic and public questions, national and local. Was prime mover for Federation of Clubs in Wyoming (State and Nat.). Favors woman suffrage. Contributor to local newspapers; gives addresses on the Law and the Lady in Wyoming; Legends and History of Wyoming, school crafts. Democrat in politics. Vice-pres. for Wyo. of Democratic Woman's League (national); charter mem. Cheyenne Woman's Club; mem. of Laramie Woman's Club (past pres.).
BELLINGER, Martha Fletcher (Mrs. Franz Bellinger), 60 Morningside Drive, N.Y. City.
Writer; b. Alstead, N.H., April 21, 1870; dau.
