Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Bell, Charles 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Bell, Charles, Herkimer, was born in Columbia, Herkimer county.  He received 
his education in the Cedarville High School and Whitestown Seminary, and 
commenced the study of law with Earl & Prescott, and was admitted to the bar 
from the office of Steele & Prescott June 20, 1884.  On January 19, 1885, he 
formed a copartnership with  J. D. Henderson for the practice of law, which 
firm still exists, and is one of the most prominent law firms in Herkimer 
county.  Mr. Bell is a member of the police and fire commissioners, which 
offices he has held since their organization in 1787.  He was selected 
chairman of the Democratic County Committee in 1889 which office he still 
retains.  He also a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken his thirty-
second degree, and is identified with various social and benevolent 
institutions.  He married Carrie, daughter of J. J. Steele, of German Flats.  
Mr. Bell's father is Warner Bell, his grandfather Nicholas Bell, and his great-
grandfather Philip Bell, the latter having been killed in the Revolutionary 
war.  The ancestry of the family is Mohawk Dutch.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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