Background
Bell, John Cromwell was born on October 3, 1861 in Elders Ridge, Indiana Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Alfred M. and Sarah (Risher) Bell.
Bell, John Cromwell was born on October 3, 1861 in Elders Ridge, Indiana Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Alfred M. and Sarah (Risher) Bell.
Bachelor of Arts, Central High School, Philadelphia, 1879, Master of Arts, 1883. Bachelor of Laws, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1884. Doctor of Laws, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1912, and University of Pittsburgh, 1918.
Admitted to bar, 1884. Appointed by judges district attorney of Philadelphia, April 1903. Elected same office on Republican ticket, November 1903, serving to January 1907 (declined renom.).
Attorney general of Pennsylvania, 1911-1915.
Author: The Several Modes of Instituting Criminal Proceedings in Pennsylvania, 1904. The Medical Witness, 1905. The Public Service Company Law of Pennsylvania, 1913.
Various opinions as attorney general. And volunteer of addresses and papers, “Pennsylvania and Its University, and Other Addresses,” 1918.
Member State Council of Education by appointment of Governor Pinchot, 1922. Trustee University of Pennsylvania, 1911-1928.
Married Fleurette de Benneville Myers, December 10, 1890.