Theodore Stout Bell (Louisville physician)
b. 1807 d. 1884
Louisville, Kentucky, physician. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Tutored by James Logue. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1832. Worked in Dr. Dudley’s office in Lexington in 1832. Married to Susan F. Hewitt Bell on April 4, 1833. Father of Carson H. Bell. Partnered with Dr. Meriwether in Louisville from July 1832 til his death. Wrote for the Louisville Advertiser and the Louisville Journal. Appointed Chair of the Science and Art of Medicine and Public Hygiene at the University of Louisville in 1857. Directed a military hospital in Louisville during the Civil War and served on the Board of Examining Surgeons. President of the Western division of the United States Sanitary Commission. Deacon of the First Church of the Disciples in Louisville.
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���Dr. T. S. Bell Dead,��� The Courier-Journal(Louisville, Ky.), December 29, 1884, p. 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 324. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 149. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 51.
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Bell, Theodore Stout. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213561 (November 12, 2026).
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