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Author: Will T. Hale

   ROBERT BELL, well known and successful as an attorney in Nashville,

Tennessee, where he has been located since 1909, is the representative of one of

the long established families of Tennessee, and one that has given many valuable

men to the state and nation. The grandson of David Dickinson Bell and the

great-grandson of Hon. John Bell, a man of national fame, he has an ancestry of

which he may well be proud, and his career thus far gives promise of a worthy

emulation of the lives of those men of the name who have gone before him.



   Robert Bell was born in Union City, Tennessee, on November 29, 1883, and is

the son of George Gibbs and Isadora (Askins) Bell. The father was born in

Nashville, and was a son of David Dickinson and Catherine (Gibbs) Bell, and the

grandson of Hon. John Bell. George Gibbs Bell is now a retired banker, residing

at DeQueen, Arkansas. He was all his life connected with financial enterprises,

and was for years located at Union City, later at Sherman, Texas, and still

later at DeQueen, Arkansas, in all of which places he carried on a banking

business. His father was a lawyer in Union City, where he was reared, and was a

number of times the representative of his district.



   Robert Bell was the third born of the three sons of his parents, the other

two being now deceased. He was reared at Union City, and was there graduated

from the high school, and later entered Vanderbilt University, where he studied

law. In 1908 he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Union City,

remaining there for the space of one year, after which he removed to Nashville,

and has here since been located. He has made a worthy progress in his profession

in the short time that he has entered into its activities, and has already

attained a position of some prominence among the legal fraternity in this city.



   On June 9; 1909, Mr. Bell was married at Union City to Miss Lady Bransford,

the daughter of Thomas Lee Bransford, a well known brick manufacturer of that

place. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have one child, Marjorie Bell. They are members of the

Yine Street Christian church, and Mr. Bell is fraternally identified by his

membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913

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