Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Ross Bell and Sarah Caroline Harvey




Husband James Ross Bell 1

           Born: 3 Nov 1863 - Chartiers Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Hulings Bell (1815-1903) 2
         Mother: Eliza Lecky Quigley (1839-1899) 2


       Marriage: 16 Apr 1901 - Carnegie, Allegheny Co, PA 3



Wife Sarah Caroline Harvey 3

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         Father: William Harvey (      -Bef 1915) 3 4
         Mother: Amelia Walker (      -Bef 1915) 3 4




Children
1 U [Infant] Bell

           Born: 16 Jan 1903 2
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           Died: in infancy
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General Notes: Husband - James Ross Bell


He was educated at the Bell school, Chartiers township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; at the Pittsburg Academy, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, attending the latter from 1883 to 1887, graduating in the month of June the last year named. From the date of his graduation to December, 1889, he read law with David Bruce and James M. Shields, Esquires, and was admitted to the Allegheny county bar in the month of December, 1889, from which time he was engaged in the general law practice at Pittsburgh. He was reared to farm life on the old homestead place, for which his grandfather obtained a patent from the commonwealth. He taught school two terms when about eighteen years of age, and then took a four-years' classical course as above indicated. In politics he was a staunch supporter of the Republican party. He served as a justice of the peace and township commissioner. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Carnegie. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Centennial Lodge, No. 544, of the Free and Accepted Masons; also Chartiers Commandery, No. 78, Knights Templar. He was the president of the Pittsburgh Alumni Club, Phi Delta Theta.


General Notes: Wife - Sarah Caroline Harvey


She obtained a good education and took special musical training.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 298.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 299.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 300.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 261.


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