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About Samuel Dana Bell, Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
Samuel Dana Bell
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 8292170
Bell was born in Francestown, New Hampshire on October 9, 1798. He was the eldest son to Samuel Bell, Governor of New Hampshire and U.S. Senator and Mehitable Bowen Dana; Father of Samuel Newell Bell, U.S. Representative.
Bell was the chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature from September 30, 1859 to August 1, 1864; associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature, 1849-1859; Commissioner to revise New Hampshire State Statues 1830, 1842 and 1867; Justice, Court of Common Pleas 1848; Cashier, Exeter Bank 1830-1836; New Hampshire State Representative, Chester 1825-1826; Rockingham County Solicitor 1823.
President, New Hampshire Historical Society
Education:
Harvard University, 1816
Dartmouth Law Degree, 1854.
Studied law with George Sullivan, Exeter, NH
Family:
Father: Bell, Samuel (1770-1850)
Mother: Dana, Mehitable Bowen (1780-1810)
Spouse: Mary Newell Healey (1806-1863), married August 20, 1826
Children: John James, born October 30, 1827; died 1893; res. Exeter; Samuel Newell, born March 25, 1829; died 1889; res. Manchester; Mary W., born 1835; died August 29, 1858
He died in Manchester, New Hampshire on July 31, 1868, and is buried at Chester Village Cemetery, Chester, New Hampshire.
References:
Notes: Charles H. Bell, "Biographical Notice of the Honorable Samuel D. Bell, LL.D., New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 22(July, 1869)3, 249-253.
Charles H. Bell, The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, Including Biographical Notices of Deceased Judges of the Highest Court, and Lawyers of the Province and State and a List of Names of Those Now Living. (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894), 101-104.
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.
Charles A. Hazlett, History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, and Representative Citizens. (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1915), 58-59.
"Death of Hon. Samuel Dana Bell," Mirror and Farmer, Manchester, New Hampshire August 8, 1868.
- Secretary of State (1903), Manual for the General Court, No 8, Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Secretary of State, p. 375
- Drake, Francis Samuel (1872), Dictionary Of American Biography, Boston, Massachusetts: James R. Osgood and Company, p. 81
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Samuel Dana Bell, Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court's Timeline
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October 9, 1798
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Francestown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
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October 30, 1827
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Chester, NH, United States
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March 25, 1829
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Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
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1829
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January 30, 1832
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April 21, 1833
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July 31, 1868
Age 69
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Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
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Valley Cemetery, 450 Calef Road, Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, 03103, United States
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