Samuel Kent Bell of Exeter, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1072 contained a portrait of Samuel Kent Bell

Page 1073

   SAMUEL KENT BELL, attorney at law and business man, connected
unofficially with the law firm of Eastman, Scammon & Gardner, of Exeter,
was born in this city March 1, 1888, a son of John J. and Cora Lilly (Kent)
Bell.  The father, a native of Chester, N. H., was son of Samuel Dana Bell,
a former chief justice of New Hampshire, 1854-1864; and was cousin of
Gov. Charles H. Bell.  He practiced law for awhile in Alfred, Me., but sub-
sequently removed to Exeter, where he followed his profession for the last
twenty-five or thirty years of his life.  He was married in 1881 to Cora Lilly
Kent, a native of this state, who spent most of her life in Exeter.  They had
two children-Samuel Kent, the subject of this sketch, and John K., who is
also a resident of Exeter.  Both parents are deceased.
   Samuel Kent Bell, after laying the foundations of his education in the
common schools, entered Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was graduated
in 1905.  In 1909 he was graduated from Dartmouth College and in 1912
from Harvard Law School, being admitted to the bar in the same year.  He
has since practiced his profession in Exeter, and although a comparatively
recent addition to the Rockingham County bar, has already given promise
of a bright future career.  He is a director of the Exeter Manufacturing
Company, also a director of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company,
and of the Pemigewasset Valley Railroad Company.  Fraternally he is affi-
liated with Star in the East Lodge, No. 59, A. F. & A. M., of Exeter; St.
Alban's Chapter, R. A. M., and Olivet Council, of Exeter; DeWitt Clinton
Commandery, Portsmouth; Lodge of Perfection, Portsmouth; Order Princes
of Jerusalem, Portsmouth; Order of Rose Croix, Dover, and New Hamp-
shire Consistory, of Nashua, N. H.  He is also president of the Exeter Ma-
sonic Association, and a member of the Exeter Club and the Swamscott Club
of Exeter.
   Mr. Bell was married October 17, 1912, to Gertrude True, who was born
in Boston, Mass., a daughter of Philip and Georgiana J. (Palmer) True,
who were natives of Derry, N. H.  Mr. True died some years ago, but his
widow is still living and resides in Exeter.  They had two children-Wen-
dell P., and Gertrude, now Mrs. Samuel K. Bell.  Mr. and Mrs. Bell attend
the Phillips church.  They are popular members of Exeter society and at
their pleasant home they not infrequently take pleasure in extending an
unostentatious hospitality to their numerous friends.