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Buffalo Express, Buffalo, N.Y.
Tuesday Morning, May 22, 1934

               EXECUTIVE DIES
               
                 DAVID BELL
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           PRESIDENT OF MACHINE FIRM
                 PASSES AWAY
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         Inventor of steam hammer was
          well known in engineerying
            mechanical fields here.
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      DAVID BELL, president of the DAVID
    BELL Company, died at his home, 744
    Lafayette Avenue yesterday morning
    after an illness of five weeks.  He
    was 58 years old.
      MR. BELL, who founded the company
    that bears his name and who invented
    the BELL steam hammer, was born in
    this city September 3, 1875.  He was
    educated in the local public schools
    and in old Central High School.  
    Immediately after his graduation, he
    became associated with his father,
    DAVID BELL, who had come here from
    Scotland in 1843 and had organized
    one of the first local foundry com-
    panies, the DAVID BELL Engineering
    Works.
         FOUNDED OWN FIRM IN 1918
      In 1907, when the company merged
    with the Buffalo Foundry & Machine
    Company, MR. BELL occupied an exe-
    cutive position with the concern
    for the following eleven years.
    In 1918, he organized the DAVID BELL
    Company of which he became president,
    a position he occupied to the time
    of his death.  The DAVID BELL Company
    manufactured screw machine products.
      MR. BELL was active in engineering
    and mechanical societies, having been
    past chairman and organizer of the
    Buffalo division of the American Steel
    Treaters Association; past president
    and director of the Buffalo Engineering
    Society, a member of the American Society
    of Mechanical Engineers, and president of
    the National Association of Screw Machine
    Products.
      He was a member of the Buffalo Athletic
    Club, the Park Club, Washington Lodge No.
    240, F. & A. M. Buffalo Consistory, and
    Ismailia Temple.  He was an active member
    of the Lafayette Presbyterian Church, and
    had served as president of the board of
    trustees.  He is a past elder of that
    church and has taken part in the Sunday
    school work.
      Members who had served on the board of
    trustees of the church will act as bearers
    at MR. BELL'S funeral.  The services will
    be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
    with the REV. PERCIVAL H. BARKER, pastor
    of the church, officiating, assisted by
    the REV. JOHN A. VOLLENWEIDER.
      Surviving MR. BELL are his wife, ALICE
    W. NASH, and one daughter, MRS. CHARLES
    E. HYDE.
     

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