BIO: Emory W. BELL, Clearfield County, PA
 
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/

NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm
_____________________________________________________________

From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 921 & 922.
_____________________________________________________________ 

  EMORY W. BELL, farmer and lumberman for many years in Clearfield county, Pa., 
and the owner of a fine residence at Ansonville, is one of the well known and 
highly respected men of Jordan township.  He was born August 25, 1853, in 
Greenwood township, Clearfield county, Pa., and is a son of William and Martha 
(Hoover) Bell.
  William Bell was born also in Greenwood township, and was a son of Greenwood 
Bell, the Bells being early settlers here as were also the Hoovers.  He married 
Martha Hoover, who was a daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Price) Hoover.  She 
died when their son, Emory W., was three weeks old.  William Bell was married 
secondly to Julia Armigust, and they had three children:  John Henry, Annie 
Laura and Mary Emma, twins, the former of whom died; the latter married Ernest 
Shaftner.  William Bell and wife were members of the Baptist church.
  Emory W. Bell had few educational opportunities in his youth.  He has always 
been a hard working man and farming and lumbering have both claimed his 
attention.  In 1878 he was married to Miss Mary Deihl, a daughter of Benjamin 
and Nancy (Smith) Deihl, natives of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Bell had the following 
brothers and sisters:  Urella, wife of William Tate; Thomas; Grant; William; 
Edward; Gertrude, wife of Harry Chesney; Minnie, wife of Lewis McDarnold; and 
Lola, wife of Daniel Stitzman.  Mr. and Mrs. Bell have one daughter, Nannie, who 
is the wife of Charles Strong, who is at Ansonville, in the meat business.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Bell attend the Baptist church.  He gives his political support to the 
candidates of the Democratic party.