James Madison Bell

Cincinnati In 1842, he moved to Cincinnati, where he lived with his brother-in-law George Knight and worked as a plasterer. He worked 12- to 14-hour days, and it had well-trained teachers who taught English, Greek, Latin, music, and drawing. The students were taught in a proper school building with classrooms and a chapel. He read his poetry and gave lectures in Cincinnati, He and his family were among and estimated 30,000 people who made it through the United States and into Canada by the 1850s. Many people made it to Chatham, North Buxton, and Dresden in Ontario, where there were a number of trades and businesses that led to a thriving community: education, business, literary and cultural arts, medicine and sport. The industries included a brickyard, gristmill, blacksmith, shoe factory, potash factory, and pearl ash facility. He earned a living as a plasterer, He helped identify men who would assist Brown, a group that included Oberlin College graduates, who rescued Sylvanus Demerest who was kidnapped with the intention of selling him into slavery. Bell stayed in Canada until 1860, when he moved to California; At that time, his wife and four of their children had died.

Works and publications Poems A Poem (1862) The Day and the War (1864) Poem (about the assassination of Lincoln, 1865) Valedictory on Leaving San Francisco (1866) The Progress of Liberty (1866) Modern Moses (1866) The Triumph of Liberty (1870)

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