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Charles J. Bell(1858-1929) was a Scotch-Irish American businessman cousin of Alexander Graham Bell son in law of Gardiner Greene Hubbard and nephew of Melville Bell. Born in 1858 in Dublin Ireland he attended Wesley College before emigrating to Canada in 1873. He moved to Washington DC in 1880 to be his cousin’s secretary in the new Bell Telephone Company. In 1881 he traveled to Paris to set up branches of the Bell Telephone Company in Europe.
