Background
BELL, John Hendren was born on November 19, 1883 in Augusta Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Dr. Samuel H. and Sarah Ellen (Cosby) Bell.
Superintendent State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded
BELL, John Hendren was born on November 19, 1883 in Augusta Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Dr. Samuel H. and Sarah Ellen (Cosby) Bell.
Private School; Wash, and Lee University. University of Virginia. Medical School; Medical College, of Virginia.
University of South Medical School: m. Elizabeth S. Harlowe, April 8, 1909, Jordan Mines, Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, United States Coal and Coke Company, 1909-1914.
Assistant Surgeon, Wright Coal and Coke Company, 1915-1916. In pvt. practice, Augusta Company, Virginia., 1916-1917.
Commissioned First Lieutenant 60 F. A., Twentieth Division., 1918, Captain A.R.C., 1920. Member, A.R.C. Commission to Balkans, 1920. On duty, Serbia and other Balkan States.
Major Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army, 1925-1929. First Assistant Phys. 1921, Superintendent and Medical Director Virginia.
State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded, since 1925. Litigant before United States Supreme Court in case of Buck vs. Bell in establishing a Constitutional Sterilization Act known as Chap.
No. 394 Act of Virginia. Assembly, 1924; performed, First Legal Eugenic Sterilization, Virginia., 1927.
Member: Medical Society of Virginia. American Psychiatric Association. American Association for Study of Epilepsy.
First International Congress of Mental Hygiene. Phi Gamma Delta; Theta Nu Epsilon. Club: Rotary.