Birth year approximate (about eighteen at end of Civil War in 1865).
Civil War veteran: enlisted at age 15 in Company F, 87th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then Company E, 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Mustered out as corporal July 26, 1865.
Fought at Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, Savannah.
Traveling salesman 28 years.
Elected to Mansfield board of public service 1895, reelected 1907, board president Jan 1, 1908.
Republican.
Congregational church.
G.A.R. McLaughlin Post No. 131.
Elks Lodge No. 56.
United Commercial Travelers No. 13.
Had half-brother Thomas M. Bell (Spanish-American war veteran, guard at Mansfield reformatory) and brother J. Franklin Bell.
Owned home at 272 Marion Ave, Mansfield, and a 135-acre farm five miles south of Mansfield.
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