Birth: 1793
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates: 1790-1889
  Notes:

  MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY
  
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  RECORD
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  Author
  Bell, Ephraim, Dr., 1793-1875.
  
  Title Statement
  [manuscript] : Papers, 1790-1889.
  
  Description
  7 boxes.
  
  Title Statement
  [manuscript] : Papers, 1790-1889.
  
  Restriction Note
  Unrestricted.
  
  Summary, Etc. Note
  Summary:  Papers of Dr. Ephraim Bell, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. &
  Mrs. Thomas Deford, as well as items of other members of the Deford
  family, chiefly Thomas Deford's father Benjamin, and his tanning business,
  B. Deford & Co. BOX 1: Primarily bills and receipts for goods and services
  purchased by Ephraim Bell, 1821-75. Also, promissory notes to Bell, and
  assorted memoranda. BOX 2: Bills and receipts separated from those in Box
  1, including; tax bills and receipts, 1834-75; and Baltimore City Water
  Rent tax bills and warnings, 1862-75. Receipts for subscriptions to
  newspapers and periodicals, 1830-75. Tuition bills and collection notices
  
  from Bell to others to support students in a School for Indigent Children
  located in the 7th District of Baltimore County, 1840-48. Receipts for
  insurance policies, 1840-51. U. S. Internal Revenue Licenses to practice
  medicine and tax receipts, 1863-67. Receipt Book, 1839-75. Two Cash Books,
  1835-37, 1837-41. BOX 3: Ephraim Bell correspondence mostly concerning
  financial matters, friendship, and a few concerning local politics. Also,
  correspondence and official forms concerning Bell's appointment as
  postmaster at MD Line. Legal papers include deeds, surveys, and two
  notices to the constable to hold people for debt to Bell. Estate papers of
  Peter Smyser (d. 1835), Ephraim Bell, executor, including promissory notes
  to Smyser, 1828, 1831, promissory notes from Smyser to others paid by
  estate, 1832-22, will of Peter Smyser, 1834, bills and receipts relative
  to estate, 1835-42, administrative accounts, inventory of estate, and
  memoranda of Ephraim Bell concerning estate. BOX 4: Deford papers,
  
  1790-1872 consisting mainly of receipts and bills for goods and services
  purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1870-72, and deeds and other legal
  documents concerning farmland and other property in PA and involving such
  persons as William McVitty, John Taylor, George Johnson, and others,
  1790-1843. Also, receipts and bills of Benjamin Deford, 1841-43, a few
  items of Thomas Deford correspondence, including an 1861 letter from the
  "Committee for the Ward" advising him to keep his "most violent 'Union' or
  'Administration' sentiments" to himself, or reserve such pronouncements to
  where they will be more hospitably received, and many letters of sympathy
  for the family of Benjamin Deford upon his death in 1870. BOX 5: Deford
  papers, 1873-1889 and n.d. consisting mostly of bills and receipts for
  goods and services purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1873-75, as well
  as items concerning the many charitable works of Mrs. Deford with
  
  hospitals, schools, and the Presbyterian Church. A few items of social
  correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, and notes and memoranda.
  BOX 6: B. Deford and Company-Bill Book, 1832-43, Two Sales Ledgers,
  1840-41 and 1842-44. BOX 7: B. Deford and Company-Two Cash Books, 1837-38
  and 1840-41, Receipts Book, 1838-43.
  
  Other Forms Note
  A few newspaper clippings were xeroxed and the original destroyed. Some
  contemporary MS copies of legal documents.
  
  Terms of Use
  Information on literary right available in repository.
  
  Source of Acq. Note
  Gift; S. D. Drewry Deford; May 1973.
  
  Associated Materials
  Other Deford papers may be found in MSS 1964 and 2095.
  
  Biog./Historical Note
  Ephraim Bell, medical doctor in northern Baltimore County, Postmaster in
  MD Line, 1946; member MD Constitutional Conventions of 1850 and 1867;
  several times member of MD Legislature.
  
  Elect. Loc./Access
  www.mdhs.org/library/mss/ms001965.html
  
  Name Added Entry
  Deford, Thomas, 1833-1901.
  
  Name Added Entry
  
  Benjamin Deford & Co.
  
  Call Number
  MS 1965
  
  Location
  Special Collections Reading Room

  Source:

• Dates: 1790-1889
  Notes: MS. 1965 BELL PAPERS
  Financial records of Dr. Ephraim Bell (1793-1875), 1821-75, including bills, receipts, promissory notes, memoranda, and two cashbooks; tuition bills and collections notices from Bell to others to support a school for indigent children in Baltimore County, 1840-48; items concerning his appointment as a postmaster; medical licenses; deeds and surveys; estate papers of Peter Smyser for which Bell served as executor; bills and receipts of Bell’s daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1870-75,
  including Mrs. Deford’s charitable work and letters of sympathy on the death of Benjamin Deford, 1870; bills and receipts of Benjamin Deford, 1841-43; Pennsylvania land papers, 1790-1843. Records of Benjamin Deford and Company, tanners: bill book (1832-34), sales ledgers (1840-44), cashbook (1837-38, 1840-41), and a receipt book (1838-43). 7 boxes, 1790-1889
  Repository: Maryland Historical Society
  Source:
• Dates: 1821
  Notes: M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 163