Background
Clark Bell was born on March 12, 1832, at Whitesville, Jefferson County, New York, the son of Philander F. and Sylvia (Jones) Bell.
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Clark Bell was born on March 12, 1832, at Whitesville, Jefferson County, New York, the son of Philander F. and Sylvia (Jones) Bell.
Clark was educated at Franklin Academy, and after leaving school assisted his father in the blacksmith business. He studied law in his leisure hours and was admitted to the bar at Rochester in 1853.
Opening an office at Hammondsport, New York, Clark continued in practise there till 1861, when he removed to Bath, and acted as assistant district attorney for Steuben County, 1861-1862. Shortly thereafter he became associated with the promoters of the Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company which, organized under Acts of Congress in 1862, found itself unable to proceed with construction, partly owing to the depression caused by the war. He was appointed attorney to the company, assisted in its reorganization in October 1863, and the same year moved his office to New York City. He drafted the act which was passed by Congress and approved July 2, 1864, radically changing the constitution of the company and the terms under which federal aid was extended, and he continued to act as the company's attorney during the whole period of construction (1864 - 1869).
Bell was later retained by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Rock Island Railroad, and, so long as he remained in active practise, was associated with important corporation and industrial enterprises. In 1870 he was elected a member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, and two years later became its president, devoting a large part of his time to its business and taking a prominent part in all its discussions. He soon became recognized as a leading New York expert in medical jurisprudence, and contributed valuable papers on that subject to the proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society.
In 1872 he was counsel for George Francis Train, against whom lunacy proceedings had been commenced under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. The trial before Chief Justice Daly and a jury was lengthy, lasting from April 9 to May 6, 1873. Bell had for some years prior to this studied the subject of mental diseases extensively and his successful contest with the professional mental experts in this case brought him into great prominence.
In 1884 Bell was active in establishing the Medico-Legal Journal and became its editor. Thenceforth he was a constant contributor to its columns on matters of common interest to the legal and medical professions. In 1885 he represented the United States at the Paris Congress of Medical Jurisprudence. His Judicial History of the Supreme Court of the United States and Provinces of North America was published in 1895. He founded the American Congress on Tuberculosis in 1900, editing the Bulletin of its proceedings in four volumes. He was appointed United States delegate to the International Medical Congresses held in Paris in 1900 and Lisbon in 1906, taking an important part in the discussions. He also wrote Spiritism, Telepathy and Hypnotism (1902), which attracted much attention and passed through several editions. The first of his Medico-Legal Studies had appeared in 1889, and they had reached eleven volumes when advancing years compelled him to retire from his activities. In addition to his writings he edited the Bulletins of the Medico-Legal Congresses, 1889 and 1895, and Medico-Legal Papers in three volumes. Bell died very suddenly in New York on February 22, 1918.
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Clark Bell was a member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York; the Paris Congress of Medical Jurisprudence (1885); the International Medical Congresses in Paris and Lisbon (1900, 1906); a founding member of the American Congress on Tuberculosis (1900).
Clark Bell was married in 1858 to Helene S. Taylor.