Born in Dublin, Ireland, Charles J. Bell was a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell. After settling in Washington, DC, Charles established the private banking firm of Bell & Company, ultimately becoming the chairman of the board, president, or a director of over a dozen corporations, and a founder of the American Red Cross. In 1881 he married Roberta Wolcott Hubbard, the daughter of Gardiner Greene Hubbard of Boston, MA, and Twin Oaks, Washington, DC. [Hubbard was the first president of the Bell Telephone Company and a founder of the National Geographic Society.] Charles and Roberta had two children: Helen Adine, who married Julien Ashton Ripley, Sr. and resided at Three Corner Farm on Ripley Lane in Muttontown; and Grace Hubbard Bell, who married Granville Roland Fortescue. After Roberta’s death in 1885, Charles married her sister Grace Blatchford Hubbard in 1887. Charles and Grace had three children: Gardiner Hubbard, Charles James, and Robert Wolcott Bell. (Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 21, pp. 33-34.)
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Charles J. Bell was a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell. After settling in Washington, DC, Charles established the private banking firm of Bell & Company, ultimately becoming the chairman of the board, president, or a director of over a dozen corporations, and a founder of the American Red Cross. In 1881 he married Roberta Wolcott Hubbard, the daughter of Gardiner Greene Hubbard of Boston, MA, and Twin Oaks, Washington, DC. [Hubbard was the first president of the Bell Telephone Company and a founder of the National Geographic Society.] Charles and Roberta had two children: Helen Adine, who married Julien Ashton Ripley, Sr. and resided at Three Corner Farm on Ripley Lane in Muttontown; and Grace Hubbard Bell, who married Granville Roland Fortescue. After Roberta’s death in 1885, Charles married her sister Grace Blatchford Hubbard in 1887. Charles and Grace had three children: Gardiner Hubbard, Charles James, and Robert Wolcott Bell. (Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 21, pp. 33-34.)
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