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Bell family of Halifax
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The Bell family of Halifax, N.S., is descended from the Hon. Hugh Bell (1780-1860), educator, businessman, officeholder, politician and philanthropist. Originally from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Hugh Bell came as a child to Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He married first in 1808 Elizabeth Lane at Halifax and secondly in 1815 Ann Allison at the Mantua estate near Newport, N.S. He was related through his second wife to Charles Frederick Allison, founder of Mount Allison University. Hugh Bell and several of his descendents owned businesses in Halifax. They were strongly involved with the Methodist Church in Nova Scotia and Sackville, N.B.