Bell, Charles Henry (1823-1893)

Name:: Bell, Charles Henry (1823-1893)
Title:: Editor, Exeter News-Letter, Exeter, 1871-1875
Solicitor, Rockingham County, 1856-1866. 1878
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1858-1860, 1872-1873
Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1860
Member, New Hampshire Senate, 1863, 1864
President, New Hampshire Senate, 1864
Member, United States Senate, 1879
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1881-1883
President, New Hampshire State Constitutional Convention, 1889
Trustee, Robinson Female Seminary
Trustee, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1879-
President, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1868-1887
Born:: 11/18/1823
Birthplace:: Chester, NH
Died:: 11/11/1893
Death Location:: Exeter, NH
Residence:: Chester, NH 1823-
Boston, MA
Exeter, NH 1854-1895
Somersworth, NH 1849-1854
Nationality:: American
Occupation:: Lawyer
Author
Father:: Bell, John (1765-1836)
Mother:: Thom, Persis (1778-1862)
Spouse:: (1) Gilman, Sarah Almira, May 5, 1847
(2) Gray, Mary E., June 3, 1867
Children:: Helen, born 1848; died 1909
Mary Persis, born 1850; died 1900
Notes:: Andrew Gilman. The Gilman Family. Albany, 1869, pp 155-157, p 157.

Edmund F. Slafter, "Memoir of the Hon. Charles H. Bell, LL.D.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 49(January, 1895), 9-23.

Bell Family Register, 1987.083.02

Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH