Edgar De Forest BELL: Biography

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Source:  Centennial History of Missouri (The Center State), One Hundred
Years in the Union 1820-1921, Illustrated, Volume V, St. Louis - Chicago,
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1921

Edgar De Forest BELL:  Edgar De Forest BELL, the general manager of the
Illinois Traction System was born in Hopewell, Indiana, May 6, 1875.  His
father, a prosperous farmer, was Jesse BELL and his mother Elizabeth (HOOD)
BELL, both of whom were natives of that town.  Of the three boys and three
girls born to them Edgar De Forest BELL was the third.  He received his
early education the grade and high schools of Urbana, Illinois, and
graduated from the University of Illinois in 1901 with the degree of
Bachelor of Science and Engineering.  He began work immediately with the
Illinois Traction System and has advanced steadily to his present position
as the general manager.

Mr. BELL is one of the stockholders of the University Bank of Urbana,
Illinois, and is connected with three prominent building and loan
associations in that city.  He has participated actively in all Liberty
loan drives.

A member of the Rock Springs Country Club of Alton, Illinois, and the
Riverview Club of St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. BELL is also a Mason who has
achieved the Scottish Rites.  His party affiliations are republican and his
religious faith is that of the Quakers.

Mr. BELL was married in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1905, to Amelia
SEIFFERMAN, daughter of Charles SEIFFERMAN of Urbana, Illinois, of the
Transportation Department of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
Railroad.  They have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth BELL.