Davidson-Obion County TN Archives Biographies.....Bell, Robert 1883 -
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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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From:
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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