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Joseph Bennett Bell
JOSEPH BENNETT BELL, business man, was born in
Greenville, November 18, 1859; son of Jonathan Ezekiel and Georgia Anna (Bennett)
Bell; grandson of Edward and Eliza H. (Veasy) Bell, the former born in Sumter
District, South Carolina, removed to Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1820, and later
to Butler County, and of Sylvester and Louise (Clark) Bennett; and great-grandson
of John Bell, of Virginia, a soldier of the Revolution, who after the war was granted
a tract of land in Sumter District, on which he lived and reared a large family.
Mr. Bell was educated in the common schools at Greenville, and after leaving school
clerked in a hardware store at Montgomery. In 1890 be removed to Prattville and
became interested in, and connected with the Daniel Pratt Gin Company, now the
Continental Gin Company. He is a stockholder and a director in this company, and
has financial interests in several other institutions at Prattville, among them
the Autauga Banking and Trust Company, and the Prattville Mercantile Company.
He has served as a member of the Prattville city council and was a member of the
legislature from Autauga County, 1911-15. He is a Democrat; a Methodist; a Mason;
a Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Odd Fellows.
Married:
at Prattville, November 20, 1889, to Mary Vaughn, daughter of Merrill Edward and
Julia Adelaide (Smith) Pratt of Prattville.
Children:
1. and 2. Marie and Julia, twins;
3. Adelaide;
4. Daniel Snow;
5. Jonathan Edward;
6. Henry Pratt;
7. Myra Ellen.
Residence:
Prattville.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, LL.D., Volume III,
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Compnay, Chicago, 1921
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