Scope and Content Note
This collection houses three photographs. Two depict the students studying at Flagstaff's primary school in the late 1880s and 1890s and one shows Don Bell in Prescott in 1969. The two images showing Flagstaff were most likely taken when Jennie Bell was teaching at the city's school.
Dates
- Creation: 1885-1890, 1969
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Biographical Note
Lewis and Jennie (Jordan) Bell were beekeepers, farmers, and teachers in Arizona in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jennie Edith Jordan was born to Scott Dyer Jordan (1825-1899) and Judith D. (Murray) Jordan (1834-1908) on December 24, 1864 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She was one of ten children, including Franklin H. (1853-1877), Dora Marie (Jordan) Jordan (1855-1938), Walter S. (1859-1862), Fred Murray (1862-1948), Ralph Henry (1867-1952), Ethel Celia (Jordan) Boyd (1869-1964), Herbert L. (1870-), Mabel Washburn (Jordan) Jordan (1871-1964), and Eva Mildred (1872-1954).
Jennie Jordan followed her sister and brother-in-law, Dora and Frank Jordan, to Arizona in 1886 and taught school in Clear Creek and Flagstaff. She met her husband, Lewis Byers Bell (1866-1938), in 1888 when he moved to Arizona to assist Frank Jordan with his bee apiary. The couple married on December 31, 1891 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine and lived in Ohio before returning to Arizona in 1895. They had four children, Ralph Lewis (1892-1968), Donald Francis (1894-1976), Warren Leroy (1897-1952), and Lawrence Theodore (1901-1901). When Frank and Dora Jordan moved to Jerome, the couple took over Frank Jordan's farm and raised hay and bees in addition to operating the grist mill until they moved to Orange, California in the 1920s. Lewis Bell died on October 3, 1938 and Jennie Bell followed on January 31, 1940.
Full extent
3 Photograph(s)
Full extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses three photographs. Two depict the students studying at Flagstaff's primary school in the late 1880s and 1890s and one shows Don Bell in Prescott in 1969. The two images showing Flagstaff were most likely taken when Jennie Bell was teaching at the city's school.
Arrangement
This collection consists of three photographs.
Provenance
Don Bell donated these photographs to the Arizona Collection in June of 1974 (Accession #1993-00768).
- Title
- Don Bell Photographs, 1885-1890, 1969
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Greater Arizona Collection Repository
Contact
Arizona State UniversityP.O. Box 871006
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 United States
(480) 965-4932
archives@asu.edu