Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 512.  Boyle County.

JOSHUA FRY BELL was born in Danville, Kentucky, November 26, 1811, and
died there August 17, 1870.  He was one of the distinguished lawyers of
the state and a man of splendid intellectual endowments who played a
very important part on the stage of Kentucky's public life about the
middle of the century.  He was graduated in 1828, when only sixteen and
a half years old, at Center College, Danville, then under the presidency
of Rev. John C. Young, D.D.  He studied law in Lexington, after which he
spent several years in Europe gaining that culture and knowledge which
only travel can impart.  When a young man of twenty-two he returned to
his native land and began the practice of law in Danville, where he
soon secured a distinctive clientele.  He zealously continued his
professional labors through his life and was a leader of the Danville bar.
     Political honors were conferred upon him and he served as a member
of the lower house of congress from 1845 to 1847.  He was secretary of
the state in 1850, under Governor John J. Crittenden, and made a
remarkable race as the opposition candidate for governor in 1859, but was
defeated by Governor Magoffin.  In the Kentucky legislature, by a
unanimous vote in the senate and by a vote of eighty-one to five in the
house, he was chosen one of six commissioners to the peace conference at
Washington city, in February, 1861, and there pleaded most earnestly for
"peace between embittered and hating brothers."  On the 19th day of March,
1863, he was nominated by the Democratic state convention for governor,
receiving six hundred and twenty-seven votes against one hundred and
seventy-one for Acting Governor James F. Robinson, but was defeated by
Thomas E. Bramlette.

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