Bell, T H D

Bell, T. H. D.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Coshocton County, O., March 7, 1836. He received a careful religious training; experienced conversion in his fourteenth year; spent. two years at West Bedford Academy as a student, and then engaged in school-teaching. He was an unusual and remarkable teacher. In some of his schools nearly every scholar was converted through his prayers and example. In 1864 he was licensed to preach, and in 1866 entered the North Ohio Conference, in which he served the Church valiantly, and died in the midst of his labors, March 31, 1878. Mr. Bell was an excellent man, a faithful and useful preacher; tall and manly in form, genial in spirit, and a loving companion. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, p. 37.