- DR. SAMUEL BELL, physician and surgeon, State street; was
born in Glen, Montgomery Co.,
- N.Y., and came to Wisconsin June 10, 1849, locating in the
village of Shopiere. Dr. BELL took his medical course at the
University of Ann Arbor, under Prof. Moses Gunn, Professor of
Surgery, and Profs. Armour and Abram Sager. He graduated with
honor, passing all the chairs and received his diploma in the
year 1864, his specialty being the disease of women and children.
He then went to Prairie Du Sac, Wis., and commenced the practice
of medicine alone; from there he went to Shopiere, Wis., and
practiced for eight years; from Shopiere he came to Beloit, where
his practice has grown to such an extent that he is unable to
attend to all who call on him. Aug. 10, 1864, Dr. BELL was
commissioned First Assistant Surgeon of the 15th W.V.I., Col.
O.C. JOHNSON, and went with the regiment to Atlanta, Ga.; when
the time of the regiment expired returned with it to Nashville,
Tenn., where they were mustered out. He was then appointed Acting
Assisting Surgeon under Dr. B. B. Breed, who was in charge of
Hospital No. 1 at Nashville. Dr. BELL became a member of the
State Medial Society in 1869, and has been a member of the Committees
of the Society on Diseases of Women and Children, and Obstetrics.
He married August, 1864, Mary Eveline BOWEN, daughter of Hon.
Hiram BOWEN, one of the editors of the Janesville Gazette, and
Postmaster of Janesville for four years. Has two children living
- Nettie Evelyn and Martha Wheeler. Mrs. BELL is a member of
the Episcopal Church at Beloit.
-
- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 734-735.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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