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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

MARION T. BELL.
    One of the most important commercial interests of Fort Smith is that
conducted by Marion T. Bell, under the name of the Bell Lumber Company. He has
built up an enterprise of vast proportions and the success of the undertaking is
the outcome of his clear judgment, his broad experience and his sagacity.
Arkansas numbers him among her native sons and is proud of the record which he
has made. He was born on the 1st of December, 1876, and is a son of Christopher
Columbus and Mollie (Cherry) Bell. The father, also a native of Arkansas,
resided in this state until he had reached the age of forty-four years, when he
removed to Texas, where he still resides. To him and his wife were born seven
children and the family circle remains unbroken by the hand of death.

    Marion T. Bell obtained his early education in the primary schools of
Arkansas, mastered the branches of learning taught in successive grades of the
public schools and eventually became a student in the University of Arkansas,
his liberal educational training well qualifying him for the important duties
and tasks which have since claimed his attention. Early in his business career
he became identified with the lumber trade, and constantly extending and
enlarging his activities in that field, he ultimately became the owner of a line
of lumberyards in Oklahoma, which he sold prior to establishing his lumberyard
in Fort Smith. Here he has built up a business which is one of the important
commercial interests of the city. He sells both to the wholesale and the retail
trade, handling yellow pine lumber, white pine, cypress, gum and oak. His yard
covers five lots and the business is constantly growing as the result of his
enterprise, his capable management and his thoroughness in all that he
undertakes. In addition to handling lumber he carries a full line of all
building supplies and his patronage is very extensive.

    Mr. Bell was united in marriage to Miss Emily A. Hobart, a daughter of H. L.
Hobart of Garden City, Missouri, and they have become the parents of four
children: Marion, Jr., now fifteen years of age: Ellen; Clarence; and Howard.
Mr. Bell is identified with the Business Men's Club and with the Ad Club and
takes an active interest in everything that pertains to the development and
extension of trade relations in Fort Smith and to the substantial upbuilding and
improvement of the city. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and the
Elks and is a loyal follower of their purposes and teachings. His life record
indicates the fact that the sources of our power lie within ourselves and that
advancement may be won by any man who cultivates perseverance and determination
and is watchful of opportunities. Moreover, Mr. Bell's breadth of view has not
only recognized possibilties for his own advancement but for the city's
development as well, and bis lofty patriotism has prompted him to utilize the
latter as quickly and as effectively as the former.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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