History of Rodman, (Jefferson County) New York United States of America

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Biography of Clark Bell

Clark Bell, lawyer, was born at Rodman, N.Y., March 12, 1832. He was educated at Franklin academy, admitted to the bar in 1853, practised in Hammondsport and Bath, N.Y., and in 1864 removed to New York city, where he was engaged as a corporation lawyer, notably for the Union Pacific railway. After 1870 he devoted his special attention to medical jurisprudence, and published a number of pamphlets on that subject: "The Coroner System and its Needed Reforms" (1881); "Suicide and Legislation" (1882); "The Rights of the Insane" (1883); "Madness and Crime" (1884); "Shall we Hang the Insane who Commit Homicide?" (1885), and "Classification of Mental Diseases as a Basis of Insanity" (1886). "Medico-Legal Studies" 6 vols. He founded the Medico-Legal Journal in 1883; became president of the Medico-Legal society, and was a delegate of the U.S. government to the International Medical congress at Paris in 1900.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor