Bell, Luther V. (1806-1862)

Name:

Bell, Luther V. (1806-1862)

Title:

Superintendent, McLean Asylum, Charlestown, MA 1837-1856
Member, Executive Council, State of Massachusetts, 1850
Member, Constitutional Convention, State of Massachusetts, 1853
Surgeon, 11th Masscahusetts Volunteers
Brigade Surgeon and Medical Director, Hooker's Division, United State Army

Other Names:

Bell, Luther Vose

Born:

12/02/1806

Birthplace:

Francestown, NH

Died:

02/12/1862

Death Location:

Budd's Ferry, MD

Residence:

Francestown, NH 1806-
Derry, NH 1831-1837
Charlestown, MA 1837-1842
Somerville, MA 1842-1861

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Physician
Surgeon

Father:

Bell, John (1770-1850)

Mother:

Dana, Mehitable Bowen (1780-1810)

Spouse:

Pinkerton, Frances Clark (1813-1855), September 2, 1834, Londonderry

Children:

Samuel John, born September 12, 1836, Derry; died November 9, 1853, Somerville, MA
Mary Frances, born January 24, 1838, Charlestown, MA; died August 22, 1847, Somerville, MA
Henry James, born May 17, 1842. Somerville, MA; October 3, 1847, Cambridge, MA
Clara, born April 12, 1847, Somerville, MA; April 1, 1917, Stuttgart, Germany
Mary Frances, born August 22, 1847; died before 1850
Frances Pinkerton, born September 29, 1848, Somerville, MA; died April 12, 1868, Somerville, MA
William Appleton, born March 16,1851, Somerville, MA; died April 3, 1917, Somerville, MA
Charles John, born October 2, 1854, Somerville, MA; died January 4, 1903, Somerville, MA

Notes:

William R. Cochrane and George K. Wood. History of Francestown, N. H., From Its Earliest Settlement April, 1758 to January 1, 1891. With a Brief Genealogical Record of All the Francestown Families. (Nashua, NH: James H. Barker, 1895), 513-515.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA