Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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it ADIE f YLE BELL. D. D. TO WHOSE nenoRT this vor ; is respectfully DEDICATED.

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f »;• ;■- .! ' . • t : ■?«: -JW «(i - ' ? . ADIE KYLE BELL, D. D. A DIE KYL,E BEL,L, D. D. , was born in Antis township, then Huntingdon, now Blair county, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1815. His father, Edward Bell, having extensive business interests, put his son, when but a boy, in places where grave responsibilities had to be assumed. In 1833, when a little over seventeen years of age, he was converted under the labors of Rev. Thomas E. Thomas, and was baptized by him into the fellowship of the Birmingham Baptist Church. He actively aided in the organization of the Logan ' s Valley Church in 1837, of which he was a constituent member. In 1839 he was by this church licensed to preach the gospel. Although at home meeting with opposition to his desire to secure a good education, he entered Washington college, now Wash- ington and Jefferson, from which he graduated in 1S42. In October of the same j ' ear he was ordained to the ministry in the old Grant Street Baptist Church, in Pittsburg, and on the 27th of the same October he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Allen, of Dauphin county. Pa. During the following winter he aided in an extensive revival meeting at Hollidaysburg, Pa., where he became pastor April i , 1 843. He remained there one year, during which he held a meet- ing at Shirleysburg, Huntingdon county, at which he baptized fortj ' -five converts, and with which he organized a church there. April i, 1S44, he became pastor of the Eogan ' s Valley, his home church, where he remained until April i, 1854, when he resigned and became Treasurer and General Agent of the University at Lewisburg, now Bucknell. While he held that position the main building and ea.st wing were erected. In 1859 he left Lewisburg to accept the pastorate of the Sandusky Street Church, AUeghenj ' , Pa., where he remained eleven years. His health failing, he withdrew March i, 1870, from the active pastorate and pur- chasing a home in Hollidaysburg, removed there where he remained until 1876. During these six years he preached to pastorless churches as health permitted, spent a season in Europe, engaged in business and organized and established the Institute at Mt. Pleasant. In 1876 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church at Altoona, adding for several years to his labors the work connected with the General Agency of the University at Lewisburg. After twelve years of success- ful work at Altoona, his failing physical condition led him to resign the pasto- rate August I, 1888, and in a few weeks, v ' hile visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Aaron WiLson, at Rochester, Pa., he was taken seriously sick, and after four days of suffering, died, August 25, 1888, in the 73d year of his age. He was buried by the side of a deceased son in the Lewisburg cemetery. At this date, ten j ears after his decease, there yet survive him: Mrs. Bell, in ripe age, residing at Hollidaysburg; Mrs. Mary Bell Wilson, Institute, ' 60, at Rochester; Mrs. Nellie Bell Roller, Institute ' 66, and Hon. Martin Bell, College ' 69, presi- dent judge of the Blair County Courts, both at Holliday.sburg. Dr. Bell was a tru.stee of the University at Lewi.sburg one-third of a centur from 1849, the year in which the charter of the University became operative, made so by securing $100,000 endowment, until 1S82. He succeeded the first Chairman of the Trustees, Thomas Wattson, i850- ' 74, .serving i874- ' 79. He

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