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James H. Schell (Allen County, Indiana, prosecutor)

b. 1835? d. 1875-05-13

Allen County, Indiana, attorney. Pennsylvania native. Son of Abram Schell and Jane Schell. Resident of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Attorney in Elkhart County, Indiana, in 1860. Prosecuting attorney in Allen County, Indiana, from 1862 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Bedford County, Schellsburg, p. 38A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Elkhart County, Elkhart, p. 420.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne Ward 2, p. 282A.

"The State," South Bend Daily Tribune (South Bend, Indiana), May 14, 1875, p. 2.

Thomas B. Helm, History of Allen County, Indiana, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1880), 87.

KYR-0001-006-0013

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Schell, James H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197767 (November 12, 2026).

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