Charles J. Bell (businessman)

[4] Bell attended Wesley College before emigrating to Canada in 1875.

[1] From 1880 to 1882, he was general manager of the National Telephone Company of England before moving to Washington, D.C., to be secretary of the new Bell Telephone Company, founded by his cousin, and organize the private banking firm of Bell & Co. Bell traveled to Paris to set up branches of the company in Europe.

[1] In 1889 when the American Security and Trust Company of Washington was organized, Bell became vice president.

Together, they were the parents of: After the death of Roberta during childbirth in 1885, Bell remarried to her sister Grace Hubbard in 1887.

[4] By his second wife, he was the father of: He died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City on October 2, 1929.