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| Name | John Robert Bell |
| Photographer | F. LaRoche |
| Highest Rank | Artificer |
| Unit | Co. E, 1st New York Engineers |
| Born | About 1842 |
| Place Born | New York |
| Died | April 1, 1930 |
| Place Died | Seattle, WA |
| Buried | Evergreen-Washelli (Seattle) |
| Service Record | Enlisted age 18, on 12/1/1861 at Dawfuskie Island, SC as a Private; on 2/11/1862 mustered into "E" Co. NY 1st Engineers; promoted Artificer 12/31/1863; Mustered Out on 2/16/1865 at Varina, VA |
| Obit/Notes | -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Thursday, April 3, 1930, page 23, column A
STEVENS POST NO. 1, G. A. R. AND SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERANS, ATTENTION!
BELL--In this city, Apr. 1, 1930, JOHN R. BELL, aged 86 years. Beloved husband of Carrie Bell and father of Fred and Walter Bell.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 3, at 3 p.m. at Bleitz Funeral Parlors. Friends invited. Interment Evergreen Cemetery. |
| Subjects (TGM) | Bell, John Robert, ca. 1842-1930--Portrait photographs brL Grand Army of the Republic. Stevens Post No. 1--People--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portrait photographs
United States--History--Civil War, 1961-1865--Veterans--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portrait photographs
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| Digital Collection | Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Portraits
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| Order Number | GAR020 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission, contact the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Seattle Room in The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4633 or send email to sea@spl.org. |
| Photograph Number | 6.1 |
| Repository | Seattle Public Library |
| Repository Collection | Hugh and Jane Ferguson Seattle Room, Local History Collection |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as 400 ppi TIFF on a Microtek 9800 scanner; derivatives created using Adobe Photoshop (600 pixels wide) and saved as a JPG file using Photoshop's image quality "8". Scanning performed in 1/2007. |
| Studio Location | Seattle, WA |
| Original Creator | Laroche, Frank |
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