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Collection Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress

Alexander Melville Bell

  1. Alexander Bell (1790-1865) married (1) Elizabeth Colville (died 1856), divorced 1831, had 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys:
    1. Jane Bell (1815-1817)
    2. David Charles Bell (1817-1903?)
    3. Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) married (1) Eliza Grace Symonds (1809-1897), had 3 children, 3 boys: had
      1. Melville James Bell (1845-1870)
      2. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) married Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1857-1923), had 4 children
        1. Elsie May Bell (1878-1964) married Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966)
        2. Marian Hubbard ("Daisy") Bell (1880-1962) married David Grandison Fairchild (1869-1954)
        3. Edward Bell (b.1881, died young)
        4. Robert Bell (b.1883, died young)
      3. Edward Charles Bell (1848-1867)
      married (2) Harriet Shibley
    4. Elizabeth Samuel Bell (1822-1862)
    Alexander Bell's second marriage was to (2) Esther Alicia Laurie (died 1860)