Lenoir County, NC, Biography for JAMES H. BELL and SONS ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be repro- duced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright 1999 by Carol Pridgen Martoccia. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by Carol Pridgen Martoccia psmartoc@eastnet.ecu.edu ========================================================= Copy found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File Bell 02433-5. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. This particular document is a microfilmed newspaper--The Kinston Free Press..no date given, but judging from some of the articles it was 1899. Bell and Sons General Repair Shops, Wood and Iron Works, Bicycles and Repairs, Pumps, etc. Mr. James H. Bell, the senior member of this enterprising firm, was born in Lenoir County May 15, 1844. He farmed a good many years of his life and then came to Kinston in 1881, and plied the carpenter's trade. After three years he returned to farming for six years, working between time at the carpenter's trade. In 1893 he began, with his sons, Julius and Jesse, the present prosperous business. They began the business near the present location and in August, 1884, leased of B. N. Fields, the northeast corner of Gordon and Heritage streets for ten years and erected his large shops. In 1893 they built another shop adjoining the main shops on the east, for bicycles and bicycle repair work. Mr. Jesse H. Bell was born October 26, 1869, in Lenoir County. Julius has withdrawn from the business. Bell and Sons run a general repair shop and are prepared to build carts, wagons, buggies and tobacco trucks. They carry a large stock of drive pumps and pump pipe. They carry perhaps the nicest line of high grade bicycles in Kinston and have in stock everything needed in bicycle sundries. They are ready to do all sorts of repairing on bicycles promptly and satisfactorily. Mr. Jesse Bell is an expert painter of signs, furniture, carriages, iron safes and landscape sketches. He is a splendid natural mechanic and in thoroughly equipped to do all sorts of mechanical work done in any first class repair shop. When you have anything that you want done take it to Bell and Sons and you will get it done as you wish, and quickly. They are doing a big business and their patronage is constantly increasing, on account of the promptness with which they attend to their work and the universal satisfaction given.